Julf wrote: > But as Lee Hutchinson writes, "Realistically, we also know that this > test won’t sway anyone—if for no other reason than that audiophiles tend > to discount the results of blind listening tests (especially A/B/X tests > like we’re planning on conducting)."
I followed up on the mention of Michael Lavorgna in that article http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/ars-prepares-to-put-audiophile-ethernet-cables-to-the-test-in-las-vegas/ and found this article: http://www.audiostream.com/content/daniel-j-levitin-your-brain-music#c4H6QTcIoDHG0ds4.97 I recommend the book heartily as among other things a proof text for some of the benefits of ABX testing. So I was initially surprised to find that an old school anti-DBT die hard like Lavorgna was also recommending it. Watch this spin: "The scientific method requires that we control all possible variations in order to be able to draw firm conclusions about the phenomenon under study. Yet such control often creates stimuli or conditions that would never be encountered in the real world, situations that are so far removed from the real world as not even to be valid. The British philosopher Alan Watts, author of The Wisdom of Insecurity, put it this way: "If you want to study a river, you donÂ’t take out a bucketful of water and stare at it on the shore." Several points: (1) Alan Watts was a very old-school philosopher who died in the early 1970s so his take on life might be just a little outdated. (2) If you are familiar with people who study river water quality professionally, you know that after studying the river to figure out where to sample it, taking out a bucket of water and studying it on the shore is exactly what you do, and it works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103978
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