darrenyeats;273827 Wrote: > I'm that most dangerous sort - a past audiophile turned to the dark > side! > > There is a difference between the audiophile and wine-lover: most > wine-lovers don't have an emotional block about seeing the common sense > benefits of blind wine tasting. :-p It is quite normal for blind wine > tasting to be done for written wine reviews, and also live on > television (in this country). > Darren
I'm by no means the "Harry Pearson is God" type of audiophile (doesn't his oh so holy "Super Disc List" suck!!) and I do take everything written in the high end audio rags with a giant grain of salt but nonetheless that doesn't mean that there aren't some truths mixed up in there with all the other over-the-top BS. And double blind tests do reveal a few things, like which system sounds better (or the same) in that testing environment. Besides I'm not against DBT, I'm just against DBT being used as the ultimate and only method of testing. DBT, subjective testing and the taking of measurements all have their place. To put things in perspective let's go back to the wine analogy. Give 1000 people chosen at random some samples of $500, $100, $25 and $10 a bottle wine and I think one would find, based on the results of these untrained wine tasters, that any wine costing more than $10/bottle is a complete waste of money. The same thing applies to audio. For what it's worth, the vast (as in completely overwhelming) majority of people feel that low bit rate compressed audio files (think iTunes) sound as good as CDs, so I think (NOT) it's quite safe to convert all one's flac files to 128k mp3s since so few people can hear any difference. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43910 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
