 Support for this position comes from the following example. If I hear the noise of a motorcycle far away, the physical event at my ear is qualitatively different from the physical event that is produced at the motorcycle’s place. If I was close to the motorcycle, the physical event at my ear would be completely different from, and would not correspond to that of a motorcycle driving far away. A party upstairs does not sound the way it sounds to participants to the party. However, these arguments can be resisted on two counts. First, one should distinguish between source and informational channel. Consider a visual analogue. From the fact that reflected light is the only light that hits the eye, it does not follow that one does not see reflecting surfaces or is not aware of incident light. Reflected light contains information about the reflecting object and the illumination, which is unpacked by the brain. In the case of sound, distance, echoes, reverberations, and filtering affect the informational channel in a way that informs about the position of the source. Second, the examples used to support the proximal theory are unable to account for the perceived constancy of auditory features of distant objects. The motorcycle and the party can be judged to be very noisy, even if the physical events at the hearer are faint because of the distance from the respective sources. We do possess a notion of distal volume of a sound.