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Re: effect of mic sensitivity

Subject: Re: effect of mic sensitivity
From: "John Lundsten" lundsten_john
Date: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:00 pm ((PST))
Eric I note your careful wording or caveats & you clearly state some useful=
 points, but for sure I have always had a huge problem in believing in Sone=
s and the like. Seems to me to be "dodgy science" at it's worst. This idea =
as we both know is trotted out  "in the literature" as if it actually means=
 something. How the F*** can anyone say sound x is twice as loud as sound y=
? IMO the poor subjects of these dodgy - non scientific - bullshit tests ha=
ving been asked the equivalent of how orangey is fruit A than fruit B is ap=
ple like feel obliged to give an answer, but ..........
JL



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