As one in eight males suffer from colour blindness, and many, many more have issues and difficulty in discerning differentiation between particular hues.
The idea that colour coding different profiles to identify different amplifier types, would appear to be a potentially hazardous venture, liable to promote difficulties for a significant percentage of users.
If we were in the world of politics, civil servants would describe implementing such a policy to their minister, as a “courageous decision!”
This is polite English code for: “that is a completely daft idea which will likely force you to have to resign from your post in the government”
Yes Prime Minister, the carbon tax is a very courageous decision - YouTube 😊
One thing I find difficult to understand about this matter, is that whilst if it was declaimed that “everyone ears are slightly different along with our brains recollection of sound,” everyone would nod their heads together in concert, like head bangers at a heavy rock concert, wholly in agreement.
Yet it is equally true that everyone’s eyes are different, and many perceive hues of colour quite differently, along with their brain’s recollection of them. Thus, distinguishing closely related areas of the spectrum, is very problematic, dangerously so for some.
Hence, ideal colour design parameters for many devices, audio meters and Kemper amps in particular, should necessarily confine the available choice to those which are most helpful and least problematic, to the widest number of people.
I am arguing for industry leading standardisation in colour in regard to design and function that work optimally for the majority of users.
Thus, even if someone’s vision was very seriously impaired, and for example they were unable to tell the difference between red and green, sat in their car, at traffic lights.
By having standardisation in colour, utilised on critically important positions of an audio meter, or an operating function in a Kemper amplifier. As with traffic lights, seeing that positional area illuminated, the visually impaired user, would never the less readily comprehend, what that meant, what is going on, what they should do.
I find it best to listen to product designers and feel it would be foolish to have the temerity to presume to tell them their job. As is the habit of some.
There is a place to make suggestions but usually, far more and better can be gleaned where designers and manufacturers are concerned, by listening than talking.
With all due respect, none of us are in a position to demand anything from Kemper and as a non-personal point, in general, my experience with people that go around making such demands, is that they lack maturity.
Perhaps suffering from infantilism. Behaviour that worked successfully as a child with doting parents, but should have been dispensed with in teenage years, and never allowed to remain in adulthood. Childish outbursts are the result.
So, allow me to categorically declaim that it makes no difference whatever to me, what colours are desired, included or used by anyone.
Such a vivid range of colour choice, definitely will make a difference to YOU, if it’s what you want. But as will become clear, some things we want, just aren’t good for us. Even if Kemper included them.
We understand and interpret life, multi-modally, derived from the function of our senses, processed within our brain.
The brain, not only processes such input, but also actively prioritises the relative importance, it assigns to differing stimuli as they occur.
Cynosure prioritisation of particular senses, inevitably involves temporal suppression of other senses. Whilst sound involves specific areas of the brain.
Music encompasses many different areas of the brain, enacting simultaneously.
A chain of neural processing stations from the ear and auditory nerve, form a pathway to the highest hierarchical level, the auditory cortex.
Differing facets of musical sound on that path, are processed simultaneously. Front, back, top, bottom, inside and outside, by almost every part of the brain.
This is how music can awaken emotions in people with Alzheimer’s.
Gain in one, pitch in another, rhythm in another, beat in another, tempo in another.
All brought together in that cortex where deeply and profoundly moved, we fully experience the emotional power, of beauteously expressed, memorable music.
Here’s the salient point!
By nature, we possess an instinctive proclivity to accommodate dominant influence to the presence of strong visual stimulus, over all other senses.
As music is processed, involving many differing areas of the brain. As a natural function of prioritisation under such circumstance, it is understandably susceptible to increasing suppression and reduction, resulting from visual stimulus.
Thus, any preoccupation with visual theatrics likely to excite and stimulate via the eye, will accordingly to some degree, negatively affect the brain’s ability to optimally appreciate, musical stimulus, singularly for itself. Albeit in a seamless manner we are principally, totally unconscious of, absorbed elsewhere as we would become, with vivid light.
You are standing with a friend talking, but become aware they are not taking in what you are saying.
They gaze into the middle distance and you perceive that their mind is fully concentrating, such that signals they normally receive from other sensory channels, are actively suppressed. A sensory overload protection.
You are hard at work physically. Its demanding and you are focussing strongly on what you are doing. Later, you undress for a shower, and find a large bruise or a long cut covered in dried blood. Your concentration was elsewhere, such that your brain, subconsciously suppressed both pain and your awareness of it.
The delight, attention and preoccupation with vividly eye-catching colours we all enjoy, thus negatively detracts and reduces the totally optimised appreciation of auditory stimulus in music, we identify as paramount, and claim to seek.
We will physiologically fail to be capable of completely absorbing and appreciating, absolutely optimally, and that is the point, the full pleasurable experience available in music.
As visual stimulus exerts predominance, gains attention and increases dependence, progressively attributing greater significance to their importance.
Its why live performers get away with performances that wouldn’t make a C.D.
True story, the late Tom Dowd, once painted over all the recording meters on their Large Format Recording Console at Atlantic Records.
The moral of that is, music is best experienced not by the eye, but rather, by the ear. So, listening to the sound and utilising the established methods of organisation, is really what I would encourage you to do.
With all due respect.
Here’s the thing, short and concise.
I can back up my viewpoint, with scientific evidence, and over one hundred years of broader, empirical and anecdotal evidence.
Can you?
Are you married? You actually pulled out the colour blind card haha.
