Archimago wrote: > Some interesting articles from that issue indeed :-) > > I just put up a post on the blog site to "explore" a couple of them...
Nice work, Archimago! I do wish you had spent a little time tearing a hole in Dudley's straw man anti-double blind testing argument. He starts off with a bang by comparing dbts to side-by-side close inspections used to identify forgeries from originals in the art world. Kind of like comparing apples to giant squids but perhaps I'm being a bit too objective. His next distortion is his insistence that all dbts consist of 15 seconds of music being constantly switched back and forth. WTF? Is that one of the basic requirements of double blind tests because if so, then that rule is missing in my copy of "Robert's Rules of Double Blind Audio Testing". I've said it before, I'll say it again now and I'm sure I'll say it many more times: Digital audio has thrown the world of high end audio for a loop and so far they have not been able to recover. $300 DACs that test, measure and sound as good as $30,000 DACs and $5 USB cables that test, measure and sound as good as $500 USB cables - what is the world coming to?!?!? And more importantly - where are the advertising dollars going to come from?!?!? Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
