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- From: kim@Software.Mitel.COM (Kim Letkeman)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Cambridge SoundWorks?
- Message-ID: <KIM.92Jul30164600@kim.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 20:46:00 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mgr@iti.org's message of 30 Jul 92 13:53:31 GMT
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- In article <mgr.712504411@hela.iti.org> mgr@iti.org (Mike Rother) writes:
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- | Doesn't Cambridge have the print ads featuring a photo of an
- | elderly-looking Henry Kloss listening carefully to some speakers?
- | Your comments above about "less brilliant" sound reminded me of that
- | picture. As humans get older, our ability to hear high-frequency
- | sound deterioriates. The Cambridge ads imply that Henry's
- | experienced ears were used to help design their speakers. Makes you
- | wonder.
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- If a set of ears that were badly aged were used to test prototypes,
- wouldn't the final result be more "brilliant" and not less? This to
- compensate for the supposed decline in high frequency hearing?
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- Kim Letkeman kim@Software.Mitel.COM
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