darrenyeats wrote: > In short, I listen sighted for a specific difference or "tell". Then I > focus on that, and that only, when doing the blind trials. For some > reason, in my last blind test, this worked well. Moreover, in the same > set up when I strayed and decided I'd discovered another "tell" whilst > listening blind, and I focussed on that instead, I failed. Then, going > back to focussing on the tell I heard sighted, I started picking out > stuff again. > > Why this happened, I don't know. It's what I experienced anyway and > hopefully someone will find it interesting or, best of all, it might > lead someone to try more blind testing and to reach their own > conclusions. > > Note the sighted part, where you search for the tell, needs to be > calibrated a bit. By that I mean your brain needs to be informed of the > scale of the task i.e. how small are the differences for which we search > (probably, very small!) So some preliminary blind listening is advised > as a warm up, just A/B switching. This is especially important if you > haven't done blind comparisons before - be prepared to be amazed how > tiny and subtle the audible difference is, if there is any. > > None of this will help if there's no audible difference to hear, > naturally. Yes sighted listening & identification of an aspect of the sound that can be consistently identified sighted is one pre-cursor step needed before entering into blind testing - if you can't identify this sighted you haven't a hope in hell of doing so blind. This aspect of self-training & the fact that this is not known by people who do home-administered blind tests is one of the reasons they are worthless - there is no control over this aspect of self-training necessary to do a proper blind test.
I told jh901 pretty much the exact same thing & posted links to the detailed, written experience of a person doing blind testing. His experience exactly matches what you just posted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jkeny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35192 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
