Popular Post Jud Posted November 5, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2019 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/textbook-evolutionary-story-wrong/600295/ The Computer Audiophile, JezQ and STC 2 1 One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 BTW, Jud - you might enjoy some of the books written by Stephen Jay Gould, for example: The Panda's Thumb Link to comment
MetalNuts Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 A deaf cannot hear does not mean that sound does not exist. To us, sound means those wave that we can hear and despite I doubt I can still hear sound below 30Hz but I can sure feel it blowing out from my sub-woofer. MetalNuts Link to comment
Popular Post STC Posted November 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 7, 2019 Fast forward 10 million years into the future.....scientists looking at the HiRez audio files and SACDs may conclude that ancient humans could hear up to 100KHz. MetalNuts and Jud 2 ST My Ambiophonics System with Virtual Concert Hall Ambience Link to comment
Jud Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 On 11/5/2019 at 1:58 PM, Ralf11 said: BTW, Jud - you might enjoy some of the books written by Stephen Jay Gould, for example: The Panda's Thumb Read them, except the big evolutionary theory treatise. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Jud Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 On 11/5/2019 at 1:57 PM, Ralf11 said: Exaptation Bit of an adaptationist view. Could also have been something neutral or nearly so, not particularly adaptive originally. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 unlikely for a complex structure Link to comment
Jud Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 6 hours ago, Ralf11 said: unlikely for a complex structure Do you think female peacocks were the only birds that had a taste for big, pretty tail feathers? Or that these began to be seen in the peacock lineage as a random event, and were then adapted and refined by sexual selection? One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Popular Post pkane2001 Posted November 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 7, 2019 On 11/5/2019 at 9:31 AM, Jud said: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/textbook-evolutionary-story-wrong/600295/ That sounds similar to how audiophiles evolved ultrasonic hearing before hi-res audio was even conceived Jud and The Computer Audiophile 2 -Paul DeltaWave, DISTORT, Earful, PKHarmonic, new: Multitone Analyzer Link to comment
KeenObserver Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 "If a tree falls..." If audiophile equipment is not heard by golden ears, is it still audiophile? Boycott Warner Boycott Tidal Boycott Roon Boycott Lenbrook Link to comment
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