Synonym for Lens?

[ramseytheii]

What is a synonym for lens, something that would apply to the aural sense.  I don't want to mix metaphors in a sentence like this:

"...listening to music through a lens of..." etc

One obviously can't listen through a lens; but through what can one listen?

Walter Ramsey

[michel dvorsky]

Think what you're looking for is the aural analog of 'lens'. 

Hearing aid is to hearing as lens is to sight, but 'hearing aid' isn't a very sexy analogy, admittedly.  Don't know if there is one.  Interesting question, though.

[Bob]

Filter?

"The music filtered through his ears like coffee through a Mr. CoffeeŽ coffe filter."

Sophisticated that way.


Sifted?  Or 'aural lens' or 'sonic lens?'

Listening is in the mind though, so I wouldn't necessarily discount lens.  A mental lens.


Ear horn!  


Perspective?  Context? 

Or "listening to music with the ears of..."

[alessandro]

Lens indeed is a some technical, scientifical word that leads towards hearing aid or ear-prosthese (don't know the right word in English)
My shy contribution...

Perforated cochlea

[lostinidlewonder]

Window?

[madscatter]

One of these, but I don't know the name.   

[goldentone]

I think you are being pedantic about it, Walter.  For example, "Beethoven was a musical visionary."  I think lens is fine.