PenguinMusic
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So you do a level matched controlled test? That's the only way you can be trusting your ears...if you are doing standard uncontrolled listening comparisons, what your brain is 'hearing' involves a lot more than just your ears.
Without any effort to control for the non ear part of it, you are trusting your unique combination of biases to fill in all the blanks properly, which is problematic at best, and completely misleading at worst.
Why not just do an actual controlled test? Then you can find out what JUST your ears have to say...so to speak...
Hi,
Thanks for your reply...
I do as I can.
I think it has been written many times here (and not by me), even by level matched control test that performing that test is not trivial.
And it probably often happens where you live that you can walk into a shop and ask them if they have all equipment to perform that test or not and if they don't, if you can come in with your own equipment and spend 3 hours setting it up and perform your measures, but here in Europe/France I am not aware of shops offering that ability...
And as I do not have the gear to perform the test, I repeat, I do as I can.
You want to know what my ultimate test is ?
When I want to step into an audio shop, I try not to sleep the night before.
Then they install the gear and I ask them to leave me with the remote controls.
Then I play music pretty loud...
If I can fell asleep despite the music playing loud, it is good and the device fits my likings.
If after 3 minutes I am irritated and am looking for the remote control to turn it off, then that device surely doesn't fit my likings.
Why ? Because for me, music must not be irritating but must be relaxing.
Of course, that is another subjective part : I claim it.
Highly scientific*. Much more than level matched test... At least, doing that, I've never been disappointed with devices I've bought
As I said : at the end of the day, I listen to music, not to a data sheet...
I already know what comes next : "Then you have nothing to do on a site like ASR". Because I want to enjoy music ?
What I come here for is simple : trying to get an explanation about why I like some devices better than others... Is that wrong too ?
Regards.
* That is ironical. Just to clarify as I cannot put any intonation into a written comment.