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RE: "Well-designed studies"

Problem is, people will often disagree on whatever it is that a "well-designed study" actually is.

For example, Floyd Toole conducted his listening tests and decided that most people could not reliably discern "time-coherent" speaker designs from those that were not time-coherent and that there were other, more important, performance parameters that the speaker designer should focus upon.

OK, so far?

Well, certain proponents of time/phase-coherency would then make the claim that Toole's listening tests were probably flawed, in that Toole only employed college-aged pedestrians in his listening tests (no "experienced listeners" and/or professional musicians) who were probably not very good at discerning musically realistic sound from musically unrealistic sound.

Huh? Ha!

Thanks, but I think I'll try to do my own listening from now on, as much as possible. I don't think I want the published results of "scientific tests" and/or other people's opinions to skew my objectivity.



Edits: 10/23/15 10/23/15

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