rajacat;152597 Wrote: > I studied Classical guitar for 10 years and definitely agree that there > is a clear difference between a rosewood sound box, such as my Ramirez > had, and the spruce used in most flamenco guitars. I doubt that any > luthiers use measurements and numbers to predetermine what SQ would > emanate from the end product. They use their ears for the final > judgment. Various woods are also used in speaker construction and will > very subtly influence SQ. Ultimately most speaker builders also use > their ears because numbers don't tell all. Stradivarius violins are > still the best despite being built before there were any accurate > measuring instruments. Harbeth speakers use tuned cabinets and I > imagine the builders use trial and error to determine the final > product. It would be hard to come up with measurements subtle enough to > predict exactly how the end product will sound. ABX testing puts an > unnatural stress on the participants thereby influencing their mood and > hearing. > I think that you have to live with almost any "upgrade" before you can > accurately judge it.
Another fallacy with A/B or ABX is that if more than a very short time passes (less than a second?) we are about as likely to be unable to compare A to B as if we did long "live with" tests. However the "live with" test enables us to discover things that no quick A/B can reveal, such as stress induced by distortion (which might even sound nice and flattering to the recording in a quick A/B). I believe that only portions of our auditory processing is available for consious analysis, which is why we often fail to judge quality when we switch our critical analytical mind into gear. Music and its quality affects us much more emotionally and subconsiously. -- 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
