opaqueice;152560 Wrote: > 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.
This is a hobby. People must be allowed to have opinions. The ABX-fetichism has gone too far for my taste. I think most people here know by now that some people are unable to have opinions without doing blind tests. How boring life must be for them. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
