Ron Baker, Pluralitas! wrote:

Could it be that the human auditory system is not
linear?


No. Humans had to evolve to incorporate a non linear response to sound
when the electronics manufacturers started supplying ONLY non linear
potentiometers for audio equipment use.

This mutation, which is now the norm, was completely unknown before the
start of the twentieth century.

We, here at Densa Labs, call it Darwinian Decibelism



mike