odysseus2000 wrote:I am amazed by what some people can hear & how it can change their mood.
The ability of musicians to spot wrong notes, slightly wrong beats & easily tell the difference between cd & mp3 & often to prefer vinyl is like a super power that I don’t have.
I don't think being able to spot "
wrong notes" is a super power. I am not musical, have never played an instrument but spotting wrong notes is very easy and I would have thought the case with most people without any special ability.
I don't know about CDs vs mp3, but I used to believe I had a thing going where I convinced myself I could somehow accurately tell the difference between a 'real' string piano and a professional electronic one! But have never actually been able to put it properly to the test.
Remember the DAB wars? When BBC people were being pushed forward to assure us that DAB really was 'high quality sound' compared to FM - against lots of Hi-Fi types (whatever happened to them?) decrying DAB in favour of FM. At that time and for most of my life having far from perfect hearing even I, by then in my 60s, could hear the flaws in DAB compared to FM even on speech! (Curiously, male speech at that). Leaving aside that BBC R4 DAB used to quietly drop out of stereo transmission unannounced - presumably when there was a lack of channel capacity. Amusingly, at the time, I naively emailed the BBC about this, thinking it was a technical oversight rather than a 'feature'. Never did get a reply.
Once I heard an amusing musical 'challenge' broadcast on the radio. A musical improvisation(?) that ran 'backwards' - that is, rather than starting from a piece and diverging from it by improvisation, it ran the other way round. Ending up with the piece it was based on. The challenge was: "
What is this improvisation based on?". Somehow I managed to correctly identify 'Oranges & Lemons' seemingly early on and long before it became obvious. Well, that's how it seemed to me.
The 'Hum' thing is interesting because although I would certainly not rule out UAP/UFO aspects to the phenomenon (i.e. imaginary!) it also has many quite simple real world explanations. Indeed I have had more than one Hum experience myself - very local I should add. The explanation is usually simple and relatively obvious. One aspect of it is, I think, that many people are likely unfamiliar with basic acoustics and how sound 'behaves'.