garym wrote: > Summary for Benchmark: no ability to reliably detect any difference > between either the Transporter internal DAC vs Benchmark DAC or the > Touch internal DAC vs Benchmark DAC. By the way, I *keep* the Benchmark > DAC because I moved it to the beach cottage in a small Touch-based > system where I like the ability to use the balanced outputs of the > Benchmark in my connections. > > Summary for CD Player vs Network Streaming: no ability to detect any > difference (controlling for different DACs, internal vs external, etc.) > > Summary for Codecs: depends. Eventually I can create low enough bit > rate lossy files to detect differences. And how low depends on the > nature of the music. > > In all cases the significance tests above I recall that the p-values > were quite high (not able to reject the null hypotheses of "no > difference") except in some of the CODEC tests where I could reject the > null with p-values < .05. > > Of course to some audiophiles the above can be summarized by simply > reporting that "my system is not revealing enough" No, I would say that your "carefully constructed double blind tests" are very revealing, indeed.
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