opaqueice;581914 Wrote: > I've tried that myself at home some years ago, where my girlfriend > randomly chose between two components (DACs in that case) every day by > flipping a coin, and I tried to tell the difference. > > I couldn't :).
And this is supposed to be meaningful to anyone else why exactly? You have a clear bias against hearing differences, and then you report that is indeed what you heard (or did not hear). What a shock. What's that favorite "anti-audiophile" refrain. Oh, yeah, bias explains all your results. Since you obviously made no effort to establish the resolution of your test setup, your negative result has virtually no value. If we are going to engage in "proof by anecdote" (which is all I see you "anti-audiophiles" doing in this thread) then here is mine: When I first got into audiophile equipment, I knew two PhD research scientists besides myself that also were audiophiles. We performed many (single) blind listening tests on various electronics, cables, and DACs. There were many occasions when we established to our satisfaction that differences were audible with particular components. Always? No, but certainly nowhere close to never. Were these tests done well enough to be published? No, since this was just a hobby to us and doing that requires a vast amount of time plus additional equipment that we did not have. However, the testing was done by three scientists with training in experiment design, who had done extensive reading in psychoacoustics. So sorry, but my anecdotal evidence trumps yours IMNSHO. :) -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82067 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
