hirsch;179800 Wrote: > If I can measure it objectively, it's real. End of story. Whether or > not I can hear it is another question, so I do a test. Maybe blind, > maybe not. Blinding is not all that interesting when the difference in > stimuli can be measured. In fact, if an objectively measurable > difference was audible in an unblinded test, and inaudible in a DBT, > all it would prove at that point is that DBT is a relatively less > sensitive design.
How do you know if the difference you perceive is due to hearing an actual difference, such as the one you measured, or to some other factor, such as psychology? Answer: you do a blind test, because that's the only way to remove bias. I really don't see what's hard to understand about that. As for your other comment, if you read my post you'll see I was comparing a measurement made with an instrument to a test involving hearing, and pointing out that hearing tests are in some ways more interesting; in particular, they reveal what we are capable of hearing, not what some instrument is capable of measuring. And I don't know why you keep belaboring the point that blind tests are only useful for interpreting positive results. It's obvious that a blind test isn't going to be very interesting if the listener doesn't think they can hear a difference. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
