[Jenn]

Arny Krueger wrote:
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Arny Krueger wrote:
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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.

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

Of course. I thought that discussion here was about home
hi-fi, however.


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.

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.

How does this relate to your statement that "'sounds
better to me' is just a statement of your prejudices and
desire to be perceived as having exceptional hearing"?
Sounds to me like the OP simply made a statement of
preference.

Good work Jenn, you just made another out-of-context quote. Here's the whole
enchelada:

"The truth is that for whatever reason, it sounds
better to me if I record at 32/96 and dither down, though the average
listener doesn't usually notice."

Point taken, but I don't see that as a claim of greater hearing.