Drugs trials aren't particularly relevant here - DBT as a methodology is used in all fields of scientific inquiry where bias can be an issue (including some large experiments in physics). The object is to remove the psychological effects of bias. It doesn't matter if the experiment or analysis is short or long.
In this case what we want to know is whether there is really an audible difference. At least in the experiments that have been done so far, people are much better at distinguishing differences when they can switch rapidly back and forth. So in order for what you guys are saying to make sense, it would need to be the case that all those results are misleading, and that instead people can distinguish differences over long listening sessions that they can't hear in short ones. I should add that audiophiles almost invariably believe they can clearly hear the difference and the short A/B test will be easy, only to fail when they try it blind. So not only must the research be misleading, but beliefs which are provably false and explained by bias in short-term tests must instead be correct for long-term ones. That's stringing together quite a few improbabilities... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37553 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
