Complete BS!!!

Everyone can hone in their hearing in a specific sound. People that work with certain animals will have trained to recognise certain sounds they make that other people would be oblivious to. Does that mean that person is a “better listener” than I am to Beethoven’s 5th?!

I feel this is absolutely bonkers and ridiculous even to discuss. Music is made of such a wide range of “sounds/notes” produced by so many different instruments, that you could not “train” to master them all, even if you wanted to.

Yes, musicians will be trained to recognise a certain note, but that’s not because their ears hear better than yours or mine, it’s because they have created a memory (in the brain) of what each note sounds like, and when they hear it, they retrieve that memory.

Anyway, it’s all pointless… A good sound system, paired with a good recording, will allow for you and me to clearly listen and even isolate the instruments playing if we wish so, I occasionally do that for a few seconds, but in the end I’ll be reverting back to hearing the music as a whole because that’s what listening to music is…