mschlack;152393 Wrote: > > I did not do a blind fold test, but what I did do was observe the > ability to hear low-level details that are right on the edge of > resolution. I used "A Case of You" from Diana Krall's Live in Paris and > "If I Were Blue" from Patricia Barber's Verse. The former has a lot of > ambient stuff: people coughing, pedal noise, hall reverb. The latter > has a nylon string guitar solo where Neal Alger takes a few breaths, > moves around a bit on his chair, and of course, finger noise on the > strings. I have used these cuts on many systems, and believe me, > sometimes you can hear these things and sometimes you can't (even the > ones you know to expect). >
I use that track from Verse as well - it's an extraordinarily well recorded album. I know it's irritating to be told this, but even when you're quite sure there's a difference in, say, detail, there's really no way to know without doing it blind (which doesn't mean blind-folded necessarily - it means having someone else swap the cables out of your view, and then you see if you can tell which cable is which). I know this from personal experience playing with different levels of mp3 compression and listening through headphones out of my computer's sound card - there's a very nice ABXY plugin for foobar (a free audio player; with the plugin it seamlessly switches between versions of the track, and you have to identify which is which) that lets you do blind tests, and it's amazing how certain you can be you can hear a difference, and then fail to identify it on the test. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
