“People don’t automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing.”

— Ivor Tiefenbrun

Interview in Audio Perfectionist Journal http://www.auriclepublishing.com/page0/assets/Ivor%20%20Interview%20for%20web.pdf. <br class="br">2006

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