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In Reply to: Polar opposite results posted by geoffkait on June 12, 2022 at 06:00:17:
Not really.It's one thing for people to go crazy wild with a sighted, non-controlled listening test -- "oh, wow, I heard such amazing things!" But then you proper level match, you put controls in (like McGill did), and all those differences miraculously disappear.
A little while ago I did an experiment -- I sent a group of audiophiles two sets of music files that I insinuated were different. I wanted them to THINK that. But they were exactly the same.
70% of them were pretty sure they heard differences -- and some of them thought they heard huge differences. About 30% were unsure if they could hear differences, but thought they might've -- though one person said: "If you told me there the same, I'd believe you."
And they were the same. As for those MQA claims -- I've noticed at times where people were listening to two different masterings of recordings, so that's what they were really hearing and/or the tests themselves weren't properly set up and they likely had their imaginations running wildly.
Doug
Edits: 06/12/22
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- RE: Polar opposite results - Doug Schneider 09:43:01 06/12/22 (2)
- That's the reality side of it - Analog Scott 08:20:30 06/14/22 (0)
- RE: Polar opposite results - geoffkait 10:07:50 06/12/22 (0)
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