I trust my senses to keep me alive, which they have done successfully every day so far. That is what they evolved for and very successfully too. But they have well known limitations and when we are claiming something that is beyond those limitations I don't expect them to be competant in these areas.
That our senses decieve us is well known. If you sit in front of and between two good speakers and play the identical signal in both you will, if you are normal, hear one sound located at a place between the loudspeakers, with no sound at all coming from the two speakers. That is an illusion, because that isn't what is happening at all. But it's a handy illusion as it allows stereo recordings to be made and played to our pleasure.
There is clearly no sound being produced anywhere but at each of the two separate speakers. Yet we hear one sound placed in the middle. Do you deny that this is an illusion? Is there actually an invisible transducer there in between the two speakers?
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Weird. Normally when I hear the same sound more than once, it sounds the same. As is the case with the beep of my microwave, the buzz of my computer, the toilet flushing, and oh... BA drivers. How could the sound difference with a pair of IE8 be explained? |
As I said this effect has been observed for many years. As you listen to a transducer your ear/brain adapt to it and make it sound more and more "right" to the extent that once this adaptation has happened a more accurate transducer will then sound "wrong" until it too is adapted to. This is a good thing, not a bad thing. The same mechanism allows us to get better at distinguishing voices in a crowd as we adapt to our surroundings, for instance.