ar-t;373244 Wrote: > Ok, back to your premise about cognitive psychology. > > When I did the fake preamp test, and they gave me that > deer-in-the-headlight look........"I can't hear any > difference.......was I supposed to......did I screw up.......?", I then > moved on the next aspect of sorting out the keen listeners.
Certainly a good start.... but if one has the time and resources, a better methodology is to play sets of sounds with controllable levels of difference (e.g. MP3s at various bitrates, or a sound processed to add some distortion, or whatever) and determine the listener's thresholds. Then you can pick the ones that are the most sensitive. One thing that helps a lot is training - it's MUCH easier to hear differences between MP3s once you know what the artifacts sound like, and which kinds of musical passages they're most clear on. I've read that Revel actually does this - they have a special room for speaker comparisons, and a set of listeners that have all been trained and then passed a test for ability to hear distortion etc. They use them to fine-tune their speakers. If only audio reviewers would do something sensible like that... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56712 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
