jkeny wrote: > Yes, I don't mean this in a sarcastic way but it's obvious that you > haven't done a blind test before - you don't realise what it entails as > I've tried to point out in my advice. You are walking blindly into a > test that will embarrass you & some people are very happy to let you do > so. > > I predict that you will be turned down by all at CMU as they realise it > would be a waste of their time unless you bring some experience of blind > testing to the table & can show that you already can differentiate
I'm confused. Isn't the purpose of a double blind test to determine if there is, in fact, a difference and not, as the above would have it, to determine if one can find/hear/see/feel/sense an -*existing*- (or least prejudged) difference. I mean if everyone knows and admits that is a difference, such as would be the case of music played back using a pair of inexpensive small two way bookshelf speakers versus a pair of very expensive, large three way floor standing speakers, then what is the point of doing a (pointless) double blind test. Add into all of this confusion the fact that as these DBTs have been described over the course of the past 20 or so prior posts, these DBTs would be used to determined if a given individual (jh901 in this case) can hear a difference and leaves out entire part of DBTs about the results being statistically significant and such. As in, so okay some audiophile somewhere can correctly tell he difference 70% of the time between an mp3, a 16bit/44.1kHz wav and a 24bit/192kHz wav file. Isn't the real issue where or not a statistically significant amount of people can correctly tell the difference a statistically significant percentage of the time? Again, I'm confused. 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=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
