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In Reply to: I Wish that Such a Study Would Be Conducted............. posted by Todd Krieger on April 8, 2011 at 22:01:55:
The differences between hearing the same input after being told it was "digital" or "analog" would be vast, too! You'd end up with an fMRI or EEG study demonstrating just how huge our expectation biases are.
Disclaimer: Yeah yeah yeah, the study is not likely to be done....but we can have fun talking about it.
Anyway, more fun....
1) How about the same sort of "imaging" or (more likely something you could do in a listening environment...) high rez EEG findings where the signal starts out high rez and then the operator starts dialing in more and more of various types of distortion, looking for various effects and thresholds.
2) Hell, you could even study expectation bias by simply asking an individual to imagine high quality digital and high quality analog listening, or to ponder the differences he/she heard between two different pieces of gear in a prior listening session.
3) Even peforming the same test twice would be fun....just to look at listener variation from session to session.
I think a phenomenon that is commonly overly minimized is the fact that we, the audiophiles, vary significantly from session to session. Maybe we'd find late night listening sounds "better" because of us and not because of the gear or electrical supply, that what you had for dinner affects how you perceive your system, variation in sympathetic/parasympathetic "tone" might affect how you perceive tone, or if your martini changed the way your gear affected you...the list goes on and on. It would be fun to play with measuring that!
That old Joe Walsh line..."Everybody's so different, I haven't changed" is funny in the audio context, to me: "My cables sound different, I haven't changed."
Next disclaimer: Not dissing your favorite power cord, just saying the truth likely lives in between the gear and our brains.
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- If you think that difference would be large.... - Enophile 10:06:07 04/09/11 (0)
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