DCtoDaylight;351968 Wrote: > Right but there's nothing anywhere that say's ABX testing needs to be > short term.
Indeed, one can test by listening to a sample as long as one wants... --but they don't do that--. > Medical ABX tests routinely run for months and sometimes years, in order > to properly evaluate the results. It may not be convenient to do that > with audio gear, but I personally believe that's what's required. Explain me how to do that? you can't sit and listen to a sample for months or years...?? If you mean repeating the tests you are right that more samples up's the statistical power but I am talking about the length of each sample. > Look at it this way, everybody has taken an aspirin at some point in > their life, but one pill won't reduce your risk of stroke. Low > dosages, over a long time, will. So a short term ABX test would > produce one result, a long term ABX would produce another. Exactly. We seem to agree ;-) cheers, Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53345 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
