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It's so "sad" that our auditory pathway is constantly trying to modulate the input from the cortex (especially with information from the cortex). I wonder why those audiophiles are able to distinguish two headphones with an order of magnitude difference in price after 5 minutes of continuous listening... they must have some special wiring, I guess.

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I suspect at least some of the audiophiles, if not all, are highly sensitive persons [0]. I wonder if anyone bothered to study this possibility. Maybe some exaggerate in their search for perfection, but I'm inclined to think the search starts with their ability to actually perceive details that most people don't.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_processing_sensitivity

My wife is very sensitive to sounds, and its linked to her autism. Not all autists suffer from this (my father was an "audiophile", yet I don't suffer from high sound sensitivity).

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