[Alan S]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Jenn" wrote in
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"sounds better to me" is just a statement of your
prejudices

No doubt. We listen to what we like.

Not if we're professionally engaged in working with sound. Then, we listen
to what me must in order to get the job done.

Man aint that the truth! Nothin' like a long day of bad rap just to pay the
bills. I'm glad I get called in to mix for people I know, and I'm happy to
pay my engineers for my own projects so I don't have to do that.

I submit that being a professional musician could easily encounter similar
situations.

Hey! ... Buuuurp! .... Ya'll know any Skynnerd!!! and you gotta do it to
keep 'em happy. I actually like a lot of Lynnerd Skynnerd but after you've
played "Sweet Home Alabama" 1000 times ...

and desire to
be perceived as having exceptional hearing.

How you reach that conclusion is a mystery.

The world is full of people who claim they have exceptional hearing and
can hear all sorts of things, or they say that anybody that has normal
ears can easily hear what they claim to hear.

Is that anything like someone reading something and then deciding that the
person who was writing it was saying something that they weren't?

Then you knock out their one-size-fits-all crutch, which is sighted
evaluation, mismatched levels, and/or mismatched synch between the
alternatives being listened to. Likely as not, their ears suddenly turn to
cloth.
That's all fine Arny-poo but if you didn't notice (and you most obviously
didn't) I never claimed to have exceptional hearing. It may be that I do,
because I am asked very often to sit in on sessions and mix for people
because the respect my ear, but I don't claim it. As far as sight goes, I
use a variety of different tools to help with spectrum analysis,
normalization and other forms of level adjustment. I use tools for
dynamic/geometric effects like reverb, compression and delay. I do look at
those when I am using them, but my bet is that is not what you mean by
sighted. My thinking (and you can correct me if I am wrong) is that by
sighted you mean that I make my evaluations on what I hear at first listen
through what ever it is playing through? Try some Yamaha NS 10's before you
pipe it through the big Genelec's baby! The cruels! If you can make it sound
good through those you can make it sound good on anything!