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Finish Thickness

#22
May I also add that your senses (all of them) are highly influenced by all of the other senses. That's why you may like the taste of something that smells good, or like the sound of something that looks good, or you may have a bass you love the sound of, and think it looks great, even though most people don't. Human senses are prone to all sorts of trickery, influence, and lack of definition. You may love the taste of something one day, and not want to eat it the next. What makes you think hearing is different?
 
#26
The music you hear on records sounds as good as it does because it was manipulated to some extent or another with machines, so you should really care a lot about these 'machines' and what they do for modern music. These comments sound really ignorant to me.

Fact is, weather you like it or not and weather you agree with it or not, machines are precise, human beings are not.

Xanaptabil said:
I could care less about what a machine can measure or not. The only real judge are the ears. Music, not sound, is one of the most ephemeral things in existence.

Ears are intuitive. Machines are not. To say it doesn't exist because we can't detect it (yet) on our machines is as rediculous as blind faith.
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#27
wilser said:
The music you hear on records sounds as good as it does because it was manipulated to some extent or another with machines, so you should really care a lot about these 'machines' and what they do for modern music. These comments sound really ignorant to me.

Fact is, weather you like it or not and weather you agree with it or not, machines are precise, human beings are not.
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That's an interesting point. If the machine couldn't differentiate on the same level as our ears then there would be no way to reproduce these minute differences in recording.
 
#28
if there is an argument for the tonal differences between the diffrent finishes of any given bass, surely this would suggest that a compromise could potentially be possible.

if a bass was finished with a hard finish on the back and an oil finish to the front, in theory the resulting tone could be an interesting blend of the two.
 

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