drmatt wrote: > Well .. yes .. for the parameters of the study. Assuming they get lucky > often enough to beat pure chance. In that case it seems likely that > either they *can* tell the difference in this trial or the trial is > broken. But like all hypotheses, you only need to find -one- person who > can consistently tell the difference and you have disproved the theory > that "no-one can tell the difference".. the debate then moves on to the > technicalia of the test itself .... > The debate will live forever.
I think the standing question is "Do the vast majority of people benefit from HD Audio?" ( to which I have established my own personal answer, but to each their own). I am not a believer in absolute statements, because -as you said- they can be easily proven wrong by a singularity. Hence, any statement that contains "nobody" or "everybody" or "always" will be always met by me with a questioning glance... But the key thing is - I don't think this study set out to find the singular exception to an absolute statement, the goal was to show wider validity of the parting premise - in which case the elimination of those who admit to be unable to tell a difference seems questionable. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation 12) running Ubuntu 16.04 + LMS 7.9 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e/Shure 1540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105816 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
