"Double blind studies are total BS because a sh*tty MP3 of low quality reproduces enough information to sound like a CD when you are listening to popular music (especially) over a system you are unfamiliar with and music you are unfamiliar with. I argued over and over with a guy who is a big hydrogenaudio guru at another forum. He says that it has been proven (scientifically, even) that people can't tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 in blind testing (I don't remember if it was 256 or 320 MP3) - bullsh*t, anyway. Maybe they can't tell the difference between two Michael Jackson songs or two Katy Perry songs they only hear in their car or at the gym between the two formats. But, You take a chamber ensemble that you have heard hundreds of times (and love to listen to) and have someone play an MP3 or vinyl record (frequency response variations introduced by vinyl aside) of it on YOUR SYSTEM and you will hear the difference."
That is all one theme. Maybe I should have said, "the double blind studies where... unfamiliar music/system... kidnapped bowling alley... are BS". They are. I go to your house with an MP3 of violin/acoustic guitar/piano music you KNOW and play it over your system that you have listened to intently for a long time and I believe that you could tell me which was your CD and which was the MP3. That is all that I am trying to say about that. I don't know that there is any way of measuring the actual complexity of waveforms which occur when a rich instrument like a violin (let alone an orchestra) bounces off of many walls, people, seats many times including the fundamental and all harmonics - then hits (continually) the transducer of the microphone. That is a very complex thing to capture. My belief is that there is too much there for current digital parameters to capture as well as analog can. Maybe that is why I like vinyl, I could have conned myself into it, can't say, but it seems more like being at a live concert hall to me in some aspects. Studio music is a little different, some of it is very dry as far as its recording space is concerned. Anyway, my .02 ad nauseum. But, I was not trying to say that all double blind testing is BS, just all that I have seen referenced to prove "scientifically" so many different things. Again, those tests were random people on a system they have never heard with music they may or may not know. I would suggest that this kind of thing would sound the same to anyone at all times. Maybe not a dog, but probably about the same to us. -- brjoon1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brjoon1021's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12136 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
