Themis;515426 Wrote: > It's easy to talk about auditive limitations. There have been > experiments since the 40's-50's with recordings and live audience. > > Now, the hard thing is to draw a clear line between these limitations > and genuine differences. > In this respect, only few people achieve a good balance. The others, > simply join the ranks of this silly objectivist/subjectivist war (or > whatever you/they may call it). I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I *think* you're saying that it's difficult to know how significant the auditory limitations may be. And in that respect I agree - the only way to tell is to do a listening test.
But the most important thing this video demonstrates is that a listening test is not valid if it includes other external information (such as visual clues). Poppy Crum's party trick with the backwards Stairway to Heaven shows this emphatically. What this means is that sighted listening tests are - to put it bluntly - worthless. As JJ explained, knowing about the dangers of external clues doesn't mean you can "dial them out". You can't consciously adjust the way your perception system works. Any "audiophile" who claims to be immune to non-auditory influences when doing a sighted listening test is quite simply denying their own humanity. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75040 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
