In Reply to: Re: Defintion of Objectivist. posted by Soundmind on June 1, 2006 at 13:15:57:
is what needs to be defined and, as you write, isn't always acheived with good "measured" performance."...fixed external standards to which people can hold up each individual piece of equipment and agree on the degree to which they function to meet or fail to meet those standards..."
That's big rub. Are these standards definable and testable under the standard statistical methodologies briefly described in the link below?
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Follow Ups
- "satifactory overall performance" - rditmars 13:45:29 06/01/06 (14)
- Re: "satifactory overall performance" - Soundmind 13:59:41 06/01/06 (13)
- Re: "satifactory overall performance" - rditmars 14:18:42 06/01/06 (12)
- I think that's what clinical psychologists are paid to do, devise tests of this type - Soundmind 14:25:24 06/01/06 (11)
- I agree that such data exists or can be established, but that is one of several required steps. - rditmars 14:37:16 06/01/06 (10)
- Re: I agree that such data exists or can be established, but that is one of several required steps. - Soundmind 15:06:10 06/01/06 (8)
- We agree (I think) that DBTs for audio equip. while not impossible, are impractical. (nt) - rditmars 15:16:13 06/01/06 (7)
- Acoustic Research used to demo its equipment against live musicians...quite convincingly too nt - Soundmind 15:23:05 06/01/06 (6)
- Re: So did Memorex - geoffkait 04:14:06 06/02/06 (5)
- Re: So does Gilmore Speakers - thetubeguy1954 13:54:55 06/02/06 (0)
- The AR demos had their little tricks. Did you know that Tom Edison began that practice? - clarkjohnsen 07:36:03 06/02/06 (3)
- Re: The AR demos had their little tricks. Did you know that Tom Edison began that practice? - thetubeguy1954 13:56:40 06/02/06 (2)
- It wasn't cylinders, rather Diamond Discs, and (par for the course) the poster below has it all wrong. - clarkjohnsen 08:12:21 06/03/06 (0)
- Their trick was they tried to build speakers that sounded like musical instruments... - Soundmind 14:50:02 06/02/06 (0)
- You can find ultimate sensitivities for human listeners in Fletcher - real_jj 14:39:29 06/01/06 (0)