The problem I have with DBT in audio, is not that it's DB at all - it's that the tests are normally conducted using repeated short music clips.
One the one hand we don't have a great long-term memory for audio quality, so the clips have to be short to give us any chance of comparison, yet on the other, listening to music is a much longer term emotional experience, and there may only be short passages in any piece of music where the difference that we seek to identify is significant. Add to that the pressure that people feel when they're being tested, and as ar-t says, we generally end up with the result that everything sounds the same. So the tests are flawed. It should be possible to do better tests using longer term measurements - as you would in drug trials for example, but no one would fund those tests in a hobby industry. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56425 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
