On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:54:25AM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:12:46AM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > > (I can also explain why some people *can* hear the difference, and why it > > > doesn't matter!) > > > > What's the short version on why it (officially) doesn't matter? > > One word: heuristics. You can learn to hear around a myriad of > non-linearities, the magnitude of which is sometimes quite astronomical. Right, but I would consider that to fall under the category of not being able to hear the difference, albeit for (presumably) psychological reasons rather than physical reasons. Just two different ways of saying the same thing, I guess.