In Reply to: Audio Pet Peeve posted by slapshot on August 26, 2014 at 13:33:19:
As a lot of people here know by now, my biggest pet peeve has become the overuse and abuse of Auto-Tune....... I personally think it's the worst thing ever to happen to music. And IMO largely responsible for the loss of interest in the mainstream for high-fidelity sound reproduction. Not to mention the scarcity of real singing talent in recent time."As a scientist, I understand the arguments for blind studies, but I also understand the audio arguments against such studies."
Another one of my pet peeves is what I believe is the misrepresentation of science in the so called "blind listening" debate.... I believe there is an agenda behind this, one of them being the "inferiority complex" over being unable to hear what others claim to hear. And often defending a design over that. As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing worse than a designer or engineer who takes criticism of his designs personally.
(Meanwhile, the so-called "DBT" advocates don't even realize what a real double-blind study is. It is NOT an A-B comparison. It's one group of people evaluating a new product compared to another group evaluating a "placebo" product. The listeners themselves don't compare anything.)
Edits: 08/26/14
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- RE: Audio Pet Peeve - Todd Krieger 14:13:49 08/26/14 (5)
- RE: Audio Pet Peeve - ahendler 15:50:20 08/26/14 (0)
- Other Pet Peeves......... - Todd Krieger 14:25:49 08/26/14 (3)
- Performers - slapshot 14:35:20 08/26/14 (2)
- "Not sure when the dancing etc. became more important . . . " - troporobo 16:26:41 08/26/14 (1)
- RE: When "... the dancing became more important than actual singing"? - genungo 03:00:12 08/27/14 (0)