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In Reply to: RE: I appreciate your comments... posted by John Atkinson on August 1, 2014 at 04:04:26:
. . . regarding the audibility of differences between crossover capacitors was conducted by some speaker building hobbyists at a DIY meet a couple of years ago, and reported on the PE Tech Talk board. The speaker used was a well-conceived design with excellent drivers. Several different caps matched to 0.5% tolerance were switched between in a second-order electrical highpass filter -- a good quality nonpolar electrolytic, and some different film and film-foil types ranging from basic Dayton polypropylenes to some exotic and costly ones.
Basically, nearly every member of the listening panel was able to consistently hear the difference between the NPE and the film caps -- comments ranged from "slightly worse" to "gritty and awful" -- but nobody could consistently identify one film type over another.
These guys were "objectivists" to a man, not of the hostile sort out to prove that very small measurable differences are inaudible, but skilled and practiced listeners with the genuine scientific curiosity to test what they could and could not hear.
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Follow Ups
- An interesting blind listening test . . . - Brian H P 16:41:55 08/01/14 (2)
- RE: An interesting blind listening test . . . - mgagneur123@gmail.com 07:41:51 08/02/14 (1)
- Ear training - Brian H P 10:46:50 08/05/14 (0)
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