Gordon JC Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 19:31 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > A nice variation on this theme occured years ago at an AES conference. > > The speaker wanted to demonstrate that 'digital' sound was crap, by > > using the familiar 'push down the extended arm' test. Test persons > > listening to analog sound could easily resist, while they lost all > > force when listening to a digital recording. > > > > What the speaker didn't know was that the PA system used to play the > > tracks was fully digital... > > I once helped prepare the equipment for a double-blind test of speaker > cables. All the golden-eared audophiles picked out one cable as being > far superior to the others, with better clarity and definition in the > upper harmonics and tighter more defined bass or some such bollocks. > > I did have to buy my Mum a new extension lead for her lawnmower, though. > Sixty feet of Black and Decker's finest, with Speakon plugs soldered to > it. > > Gordon
That's pretty freaking funny. Reminds me of the Penn and Teller where they sell the diners in a trendy restaurant water from a garden hose on the patio. haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc it's really funny stuff; worth watching if you have a couple minutes. Incidentally, I get my water from a mountain spring up the road (can't do much better than that, eh?), although I *have* bought a bottle of two of Evian in my day :) As for the double blind audio test, I reckon you guys have all seen the new AES journal by now (if not, go to your mailbox). There is a double-blind test where people were played DVD-A and SACD's, but some of them were passed through an extra A/D/A stage at 16bit-44.1khz. There was something like a 50% success rate in choosing the audio source correctly. Maybe it *is* all in my head...? Although, I wonder if ear training has anything to do with it. I'm super dorky sometimes, and I used to mix multitrack projects to different bit-depths/sample-rates and then try to train myself to hear the differences between them. hahaha, I figure most people don't do that sort of thing... ~Maitland _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
