Wombat wrote: > Even if the numbers say that the ones that were right could be right by > chance it could be interesting to try one more. There is the chance one > of the components in the listeners playback chain adds own noise due to > bad implemented volume change or alike. For these it will be nice to > test a noise shaped dithered testfile. It can have a full bit of dither > depth then. > I still wonder how many cheated or were influenced by looking with an > editor prior to testing.
Indeed, lots of possibilities could not have been controlled for. In any case, despite all that, the results are quite clear. It's HDTracks, Pono, etc.'s turn to give some evidence to justify their position that 24-bit hi-res in whatever sample rate has any value even within the audiophile crowd. As for people cheating, notice the 'engineer' subgroup scored better slightly. There's of course no way to know but certainly that would be the demographic to look for such a thing... Even there, the slightly higher accuracy rate wasn't impressive which suggests the blinding procedure did the job :-). I think there is evidence elsewhere in MP3 tests that musicians generally don't do as well in listening tests... I personally would not trust rock musicians' hearing! Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101766 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
