AB Testing Experiences

Fair amount of experience but almost impossible to do with speakers. If you can't match levels almost perfect it's meaningless. That is very difficult with speakers making true AB difficult. Even comparing DACs I would be surprised the levels are well matched unless you had a mechanism for it.

That post was ignorant level 1. Our whole concept of tone balance is tied to volume. Change the volume, our perceived tone balance changes and no amount of listening experience will ever change that. Increasing volume also brings out detail that can be lost at lower volumes again changing our perception and appreciation of the music. Nothing in listening experience will change that either.

No Millercarbon I have not conflated anything. I said tonal balance. How we perceive a sound is based on how we perceive a whole set of frequencies that make up said tone or sound. That is absolutely impacted by volume. That is irrefutable. It’s how our ears /hearing system works.


With the same sound, louder volume does not mask quieter passages unless you are reaching saturation of the hearing system EXCEPT as described above the impact of tonal balance due to Fletcher Munson. Increasing the volume makes the bass increase in relative volume more than other frequencies which can have a masking effect in addition to changing tonal balance. You proved yourself wrong right there. You are trying to ignore biological reality to suit a particular position.

Listening experience can make you better able to extract information, but it does not change the basic biology you were born with hence why it is so important with AB to level match.