skwoodwiva
500+ Head-Fier
I have been an audiophile, all my life but I did not know is was genetic until ~ 2001, - I read a Time or LA Times article about how some study found hearing acuity in .1% of men and no woman! This hit the nail on the head as to my experience. Chumming around other APs as a teen, I was the youngest by far. "The wives are just not interested, they just pretend anyway" was a typical line. Anyway to my point : I want to verify the claim or find the original study.
More, the extreme acuity mentioned was a discernment of say the rustling of a leaf in the midst of other noise, not frequency range or absolute sensitivity. Or to put it differently sound smearing from dieletric absorption from say vinyl phono cable would be very noticeable by one of these freaks...Is Jon Riesch (sic), the cable guy, still around?
Another forum's responses
http://diyaudioprojects.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6179&sid=ba37c995b0be77d3da6e6d63662cf1d1
More, the extreme acuity mentioned was a discernment of say the rustling of a leaf in the midst of other noise, not frequency range or absolute sensitivity. Or to put it differently sound smearing from dieletric absorption from say vinyl phono cable would be very noticeable by one of these freaks...Is Jon Riesch (sic), the cable guy, still around?
Another forum's responses
http://diyaudioprojects.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6179&sid=ba37c995b0be77d3da6e6d63662cf1d1
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