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In Reply to: This is why audiophiles aren't taken seriously posted by Feanor on September 24, 2009 at 07:18:04:
DBT, anyone? Anyone???
If anyone here is competent to design one, any time you want. As I've said before, I've not seen an audio DBT yet whose results I'd consider reliable and little sign that many folk on this list even want to understand the inherent flaws of sloppy DBTs.
On a different point, I discovered the issue with RAM after building a PC audio player for a friend, a professional musician with a fine ear (despite his age) but emphatically not an "audiophile".
Later, while upgrading his software and for reasons that don't matter now, I changed the RAM for a higher spec device.
Two days later, he phones to complain that there is something wrong with the sound. I hadn't spotted it on a quick test - but he was right. It took a while for me to get desperate enough to swap back something as plainly irrelevant as RAM but the cure was instant and the quality change repeatable.
I made the same change on my own box (different mobo and CPU) and got a similar result.
So, not so much Double Blind Testing as Totally Dumb Testing - because I knew RAM specs didn't matter.
Dave
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- RE: This is why audiophiles aren't taken seriously - Ryelands 09:24:14 09/24/09 (0)
- Which might only prove the musicians have imagination too - Feanor 12:31:40 09/24/09 (0)
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