Patrick Dixon;221092 Wrote: > No, if you can't do that reliably, then you can't -identify- the > difference.
It's *exactly* the same thing! Look - on an ABX test you could ignore B and simply listen to A and X. Then you only have to decide if they're different or not. That's the type of test you seem convinced is better, and it's one of several techniques you could choose as the testee. > Listening to music is quite different from looking at an object or > tasting or smelling something. A piece of music may last many minutes, > and some of it may be relatively undemanding in some respects. This is > also a troubling aspect in an A/B test, because you have to listen to > each long enough to hear all of the 'aspects' of the music, but short > enough that you don't forget what you've previously heard. One of the nice things about well-designed ABX tests is that they give the listener control over that - you can select which part you want to listen to, and for how long, and you can switch whenever you want between A, B, and X. So you can zero in on the most demanding sections if you choose. These tests give every possible advantage to the listener, because the goal is usually to identify the threshold of human hearing under ideal conditions. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37553 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
