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by klik99 474 days ago
As someone who works a lot with sound I notice a ton of artifacts most people don't recognize. Often those artifacts are harder to hear on cheap speakers but become far more obvious with a good setup. But they also add up and while untrained ears can't hear specific examples, they do result in an overall worse experience which is especially frustrating for high end users when they paid a lot for nice speakers and it's just revealing the grunge that was always there.

That's all to say - I also could not find all the things they are talking about, probably a combination of not being trained, not working a lot with video codecs, and not having the best monitors - but I get the authors frustration, and I'm glad there's people who care about these things! But yeah, I hunted for that color shift and just not seeing it...

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I remember a while ago we have a thread on HN discussing this. 50% of the world cant taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke Cola. People cant tell the difference between 128Kbps or 256Kbps MP3. etc.

For the people who are sensitive to a lot of these, it is more of a curse than gift. Some cant taste the difference between Corn Fed ( or Finished ) and Grass Fed Beef. The colour shift in this article, or how the latest TV perform between OLED, QD-OLED, Four Layer OLED, Mini-LED with different brand.

It turns out being able to "compare" is a skill set in itself. I would assume comparing is also a function that requires more brain power / energy, and most people's natural state would be to conserve that energy.

I have been thinking about this for quite some time. Most people dont know how to compare, or what to compare it to. And precisely because most people dont know how to compare or how not to compare, we need marketing. And I think most successful founder are very good at comparing things. Steve Jobs would be a prime example.