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In Reply to: RE: Food for thought posted by fstein on May 09, 2017 at 13:36:34
It's SO similar to the psychology of a lot of high-end audio too!
Stradivarius violins are testaments to our ability to delude ourselves. Just as expensive wines don't taste any better than cheap plonk under blinded conditions, these antique instruments don't sound any better than modern ones. But when people aren't blinded, their anticipations can toy with their perceptions.
"What you hear is related to your expectations rather than the acoustical stimulus that goes through your ear," says Fritz. "When people say Strads sounded better to them, [the instruments] really did [sound better] - but [it was] because [the listeners] knew [that the particular instrument] was a Strad, and not because of what [the listeners] actually heard."
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Broken methodology, or in the case of the many Behavioral Science tests of the Harvard Gang in the 50s, just plain rigged.
I'm certain Chris can attest that Even pianos of the same manufacture all sound different and certainly those of different brands. Every horn I've blown has had differences in brilliance, intonation, and timbre. Musical instruments even made by the same hands must sound as different as one tree from another, one mix of varnish from another, or the number of strokes of the finish scraper.
yes, no doubt different instruments from the same maker sound different. But they used multiples and did multiple tests in multiple venues with multiple violinists and multiple lieteners. And the results have been consistant with substantial wins for the new violins
It's like convincing a group of oeniphiles that the grape koolaid they are drinking is a fine bordeaux.
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I've done many blind tastings and have been able to tell the plonk vs. the better made wine.
True, the "bang for your buck" drops sharply as the prices go up.
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