ezkcdude;184554 Wrote: > Answering these questions is the whole point of doing this kind of test. > I never understand why people are so quick to criticize a new idea (new > to most of us, anyway), without actually having tried it themselves. > Why not just say, "Interesting idea. Maybe that could be useful," > instead of immediately reacting so negatively, "Nope. Not gonna work." > A/B/X *does* have at least two known problems: 1) It's difficult to > perform
I was initially intrigued by the idea, but reckon that the issues I have raised are close to show-stoppers. However, I didn't mean to be overly negative: I am always very happy to be proven wrong! I'm not here to diss someone's ideas - my job involves a lot of brainstorming, and I like to encourage and promote ideas (I even have some occasionally!). However, you also need to come up with the possible down-sides and try to reach a conclusion as to whether to do more work investigating. I like the theory of difference testing, but the practical problems, to me, are significant. Looking into the audibility of measurable differences would require DBX testing and a lot of subjective descriptions being matched up to these measured differences. ezkcdude;184554 Wrote: > 2) It may not be useful for detecting "subtle" differences, which are > masked by listening to the actual signal. Difference testing tries to > address both these issues. It may not replace A/B/X, but it certainly > couldn't do anything less than complement it. Am I wrong? Small differences would make an interesting PhD: I especially like the idea of letting people hear the difference and then see if that conditions or trains their hearing. Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost and Anti-cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33127 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
