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RE: Art Dudley - Listening, Nov. 2014

Agreed such testing includes a blind or double-blind element. Art specifically attacked the quick-switch (sip-test) methodology, no complaints there, but rather shot himself in the foot by referring to it as blind test - and the importance of vision in the Pepsi challenge is significant. He'd also shot the other foot by calling the art work comparison a blind test when you have to see to do the test! Having raised the spectre of whether you can see what you are testing, or not, he failed to address it's importance in audio. IMO, it does play a significant role.

I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment of the piece but I thought it was a poorly contructed arguement, the pudding was over-egged to the point of salmonella. Also, I don't forgive Art's patronizing of engineers so I thought he deserved the criticism of, perhaps, not being a good writer.

I one thing I did find objectionable - the child porn reference. Hopefully, that slipped through the proof-reading and it is not an analogy you stand behind.

Regards
13DoW

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