jkeny wrote: > there is an honest attempt at establishing the Regen audibly improves > the sound when used in front of a USB DAC of reasonable quality
Absolutely. > - Archimago & friends listening impressions will not be dismissed out of > hand. Of course not. But they will not be accepted as absolute proof of anything either. > - He can do blind tests if he wants to but unless a definite audible > difference in a short segment of selected music is identified sighted & > can be consistently identified multiple times, then there is no hope of > a blind test giving a positive result. I agree - if no differences are heard in sighted listening, a double-blind test won't add any value. Double-blind listening is required to verify the results only if differences are really heard in sighted listening. > So unless these guidelines are scrupulously followed then I consider the > blind test flawed & it doesn't trump sighted listening But sighted listening doesn't trump double-blind listening either. > - measurements also don't trump listening results. So when no > differences or differences considered below currently accepted > thresholds, are found - don't argue that these "prove" nothing is > audible - please - you simply don't know what & how to measure what is > being heard. Indeed. If properly controlled listening tests - both double-blind and sighted - show statistically significant differences, then there is indeed a case to be made that there might be differences that the measurements don't reveal. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
