My friend, PhilNYC argues quite reasonably that some differences in sound quality are so obvious that double blind testing isn't necessary.
PhilNYC;177835 Wrote: > . . .In the cases where the magnitude of change is great enough, I also > see no need to discuss double-blind testing. For example, the > difference in sound between the analog outs from the Squeezebox and > Transporter are quite obvious to me, and I would see no reason to need > to discuss double-blind testing. Surprisingly, Opa seems to share that same view. He seems to be admitting that double blind testing is such a pain that it's not worth doing in most cases. And some things like speakers or room correction make such a big difference that they don't need DBT. opaqueice;176626 Wrote: > Sometimes I hear differences, sometimes not. When I got my current amp > I heard a very subtle difference compared to the old one. I'm not sure > if it was real or not - I actually tried to do a good blind A/B test, > but it wasn't easy and in the end I decided to keep it for various > (non-audio quality related) reasons. When I recently replaced my PS > with a linear I didn't hear a difference. When I got new speakers, and > whenever I move them around much, and whenever I run Inguz's plugin for > room correction, I hear enormous differences. So why are we arguing. Based on the following quote, it seems we're arguing over what's important in audio. Opa feels that some of us are wasting our time by frivolously spending our dollars and time on meaningless tweaks. opaqueice;176828 Wrote: > This post sums up what really lies behind this debate. It's not about > blind testing at all - it's about the fact that a large fraction of > audiophiles are obsessed with a set of things that don't make a bit of > difference to audio reproduction, and feel compelled to defend them . . > . Since some of us don't want to be told what we can and can't listen to and what is important, we are subjected to the endless diatribes about double blind testing that even our friend Opa admits is hard to do and often not worth the trouble. I respectfully request that our thought police leave us alone to our follies. We're not hurting anyone and it would be a boring place indeed if everyone thought exactly the same way. With best regards, ---Gary -- GaryB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GaryB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
