darrenyeats;611376 Wrote: > I have participated in some blind testing and in some ways THAT is > something that cannot be explained academically but rather it has to be > experienced to be understood. > > When you're listening and you don't know what you're listening > to...well, it's a bit exciting and a bit humbling too. And when I found > out the scores at the end, I felt shocked. Definitely changed my > attitude to audio. If you haven't done proper double blind listening I > couldn't recommend anything more highly. > > For me, it was for digital sources and indeed these tend to be the most > similar in performance and, happily, the easiest to blind test. Try it > before you knock it! > DarrenI have not participated in such things, but if I were to, I would insist that I be allowed to provide the music (say, a CD) that contains elements that I know well, and be allowed to take notes and refer to notes that I might bring.
For example, say in the song there is a tambourine line that I perceive as being 5' behind and to the left side of the singer, the singer's voice has a small touch of added artificial reverb that I have perceived as sounding a certain way, etc.. If I cannot hear these things in sufficient detail on the 'reference' system before changes are made, I would not participate. Listening to unfamiliar music, systems, rooms and being asked to accurately discern when things change doesn't make any sense to me. There is mention of some DBT or something where folks were supposedly unable to tell when a wire hangar was used as speaker cable, and this is brought up as 'proof' that all cables sound alike ... those kinds of arguments to me show the fallacy of the 'DBT' "movement". -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C, Oppo 980H, SB Touch; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145 + Denon DL160; Pre-Heater: McIntosh C220; Heaters: Bottlehead Paramount 300B; Wavemakers: Triangle Titus, NHT SubOne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rick58's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42940 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85681 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
