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In Reply to: RE: Confession time: Have you ever "tricked" your own ears? posted by unclestu on September 11, 2014 at 14:29:13
I service a lot of equipment and often am sure I hear a difference between amps and such. In every single case, when I track down level differences and other such minutia, the difference disappears. I recently did the same thing with cables. I was 100% certain that I heard a difference, but when I improved the test it turned out I was just fooling myself. Measurements were far more sensitive at differentiating things than ears. I can actually just listen to something and intentionally convince myself there's some difference. The fact is that anybody who uses the "I listened, then made a change and listened again" method, is kidding themselves. There are too many things out of your control that sabotage the method. Everybody is subject to these biases, but many simply refuse to admit it.
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What we hear or perceive to hear is influenced by so many factors from moods, stress, state of mind as well as sight bias. Even sight bias changes depending on state of mind. Its very subjective from that point of view.
The problem with subjective results is that the listening process may not be repeatable with the exact same influencing factors. Therefore, I tend not rely on subjective claims as fact that there are differences between components. I don't doubt that the listener who claims to hear differences did perceive differences at that time but what were the influencing factors at that time? Can they be consistent enough to come up with the same results? IHO, I don't think so.
Yup, that's it.
I knew pretty much that I had it on POCD (Plain Old CD), but on my mini-vacation to Portalnd Maine this week I bought the XRCD version of Dexter Gordon's "Doin' Allright" at Bull Moose (great store BTW, shit I said something positive, sorry about that...)
I am now entirely ready to delude myself that the $24.00 XRCD sounds way better the $9.00 Rudy Van Gelder remaster.
Two different masterings will probably sound different
Alan
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