In Reply to: There IS no "need" to have blind listening tests. posted by carcass93 on June 14, 2012 at 14:20:46:
"You are aware, I assume, that abilities of ear/brain combination are vastly different between individuals?"
Actually, this can be tested scientifically. I wouldn't call the differences "vast". The primary psychoacoustic phenomena (frequency band masking, the early sound effect, fletcher munson effect) are pretty consistent because they arise from common physiology. Unless somebody is deaf.
Lets say the difference between me and Martha Argerich *playing* piano is "vast", but we hear the audio reasonably similarly.
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