pfarrell Wrote: > > It is more than that. Louder is always (nearly always?) > interpreted by the brain as better. > > If you don't volume match, there is no point > in doing the test.
If a difference is so subtle we can make either option sound better simply by turning it up .5 dB, do we really care? But take some cheap speakers, and no matter how loud you rurn them up they're not going to sound good. I think volume matching is necessary to decide if there is actually any perceptible difference at all, when that is in doubt, but also that if it's really necessary to do so it probably means the difference is too small to bother with. What makes this so tricky is that some report a given tweak (linear PSU for example) makes a huge difference, while others hear no difference at all... pfarrell Wrote: > > And if one approach has boost (gain) in some parts > of the frequency domain, those parts will usually > sound 'better'. > That's called a non-flat frequency response, and overall it usually sounds worse, not better (depending of course on the source material). If there's a single central goal of hi-fi audio, it should be to avoid that, so as to produce as accurate a reproduction of the original recording as possible. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22000 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
