PhilNYC;131988 Wrote: > > Every person I tried this with has heard a difference, but not with > every piece of music I've tried it with. The most consistent (100%) > was playing a quiet piece of music...in this case, with Willie Nelson's > "Georgia" from the Stardust album, where the opening few seconds were > very obvious when the change took place. On most other music that was > tried, differences were either not heard or "not sure, but I think > so"...music played included Ben Harper's "Gold to Me", some > orchestral/symphonic work from Reference Recordings, and some classic > rock. And for what it's worth, not everybody found the change on > "Georgia" to be a positive one. >
Thanks PhilNYC, that's useful. When I make it to one of the NY audio meetings I hope I won't make myself too unpopular by insisting we try this... ekzdude, I agree with what you said there. There is a colloquial sense in which a "negative" statement is harder to find evidence for, because it tends to be very broad - if we say there is no effect, we have to look at every possible effect that might have been there to make sure it isn't, whereas if we say there is a specific effect things are a bit easier. Phil Leigh, I'm not sure why people don't do proper testing. One reason is clearly that it's often inconvenient or difficult, but that doesn't really apply here. I agree that by itself it isn't enough to decide which you prefer, but on the other hand I think it's far better to make that decision blind whenever possible, because otherwise you will certainly be influenced by factors like expectation, marketing hype, etc., most of which will conspire to cost you more money :-). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26436 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
