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RE: Audio Pet Peeve

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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