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Message: <blockquote data-quote="newusername" data-source="post: 4650111" data-attributes="member: 562064">This is quite a semantical and philosophical argument, but sound exists whether you can hear it or not.  Finding sound with a microphone is still valid: all you have done is take a signal of one type (auditory) and converted it to another type (electrical) through a transducer (the microphone).  These electrical signals can then be converted to something we can observe (a visual signal).The act of making sound and the act of hearing sound are two completely different things, in my opinion.  The making is simply the formation of a sound wave by vibration through a medium (gas, liquid, or solid).  The hearing is where human perception becomes important if (and only if) we wish to interpret or observe that sound from a singular subject.</blockquote>

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