pabelson
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| Reviews with all double blind testing? Tbg: The average consumer cannot really do a blind comparison of speakers, because speaker sound is dependent on room position, and you can't put two speakers in one place at the same time. But I recommend you take a look at the article on Harman'... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Wattsboss: I'd be careful about accusing others of naivete, if you're going to make posts like this. In a DBT, everything except the units under test are kept constant. So, for exampe, if you were comparing CD players, you would feed both to the s... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? If you find this fascinating, Qualia8, then maybe you're the one who should be taking these sugar pills.Obviously I agree with you, since you agree with me. There's a lot of expectation bias (aka, placebo effect) and confirmation bias (looking for... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Rouvin: There really isn't much point in arguing with someone who assumes his conclusions, and then does nothing but repeat his assumptions. Here's what I mean:The majority of what we are able to perceive is not amenable to measurement that can be... | |
| SACD is it worth it? I can't see the point of getting into SACD now, if you only have a two-channel system. The improvement is debatable, and the selection is always going to be anemic. But if you have a 5.1 system, SACD probably offers your largest selection of uncom... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Agaffer: A list of DBT test reports appears here:http://www.provide.net/~djcarlst/abx_peri.htmThis list is a bit old, but I don't know of too many published reports specifically related to audio components since then. After a while, it became appa... | |
| Why do new cables needs to be "broken" ??? Ridge: Go back to explaining burn-in. Now, that was funny! | |
| Why do new cables needs to be "broken" ??? Pierre: Nothing's changing in the cable. What's changing is the listener. | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Rouvin: You're the one who says these are badly implemented tests (though you seem to be familiar with only a few). I wouldn't claim they're perfect. But that doesn't make their results meaningless; it leaves their results open to challenge by oth... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Rouvin: Let me take your two points in order. First:One, that most DBT tests as done in audio have readily questionable methods – methods that invalidate any statistical testing, as well as sample sizes that are way too small for valid statistics.... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? So, Rouvin, if you don't think all those DBTs with negative results are any good, why don't you do one "right"? Who knows, maybe you'd get a positive result, and prove all those objectivists wrong.If the problem is with test implementation, then s... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? My apologies. I took you for the typical DBT-basher. As for amps, assuming you are talking about solid-state amps designed to have flat frequency response, I seriously doubt it matters (in a DBT) what preamp you use, or how expensive it is. If it ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Troy: Psychoacoustics is well aware of the possibility that A does not necessarily equal C. That hardly constitutes a reason to question the efficacy of DBTs. And you are quite correct that changing both your speaker cables and interconnect(s) sim... | |
| Is my wireless setup as good as a decent CD Player Yes, the quality should be as good as if you had hooked a transport up to the X-dac. You're feeding the same digits into the DAC in both cases. | |
| A/D/A Conversion in Receivers? Sure, what NAD told you can be correct. Analog crossovers existed long before digital audio ever came along. If that's the way NAD says their receiver works, I'd tend to believe them, absent any other information to the contrary.More generally, as... |