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In Reply to: RE: Thanks posted by Scrith on February 14, 2010 at 12:52:32
"infinitely more valuable than a subjective listening test"
That's odd since it was one. But I too regard it as valuable.
Rick
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I believe that, in this context at least, blind tests such as those conducted by the OP are not considered to be subjective (vs. a test where somebody hooked up some new piece of hardware, listened to some familiar audio, and posted a detailed description the changes they were hearing relative to their memory of their system's sound before the new device was added).
"blind tests such as those conducted by the OP are not considered to be subjective"
I guess it's down to considered by whom. They are unquestionably subjective in my book, but do provide a quantified estimate of the detectability of a particular (but possibly uncontrolled) stimulus by a particular population.
Glad you responded, I've got a question for you: Have you ever heard a difference in sound quality between various SW 'players' on a computer? I mean of course unexpected differences.
Thanks, Rick
Yes, I've heard differences (sorry for the late reply...I realize this might be a bit buried). The biggest differences I remember were between iTunes and Foobar2000 around 2007...but I chalked this up to iTunes doing something to the audio data (some kind of DSP "enhancement"). Beyond that, I've never heard a significant difference as long as the two programs in question were outputting the data in the same manner (e.g. both using ASIO, KernalStreaming, etc) and not adding any kind of effects to it.
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