These are things people are much more sensitive to with short term audio memory. Most ABX tests try and neutralize these aspects and literally try and make the signals sound as similar as possible and utterly confuse people in short burst switch situations and then abstract their short term...
No it tells me people suck at these tests and our short term audio memory doesn't work well in these scenarios and these tests Null out actual real differences that appear in normal longer term listening conditions.
People fail these tests comparing things have have clear measurable differences...
In my 35 years of this hobby I have found much more value from reading real users subjective experience with equipment and source material then tons of pages of people arguing over the proper way to handle an ABX test and why any positive results are bunk and how people should really be...
Why? I like the science of audio, like equipment design, measurements of the equipment etc.
But the example of "extraordinary" claims sure seems to have an escalating/loose definition in this hobby. Some seems to apply that to anything that varies from "everything I tried sounded the exact...
I don't think general subjective opinions given in an informal setting require the the 3rd degree treatment nor testing times some people seem to demand.
I enjoy the tweaking, listening, relaxing part of this hobby not the ABX/Time trials/Statistical significance result breakdown.
I'm down...
I'm not exactly talking about this particular forum but what I think is wrong with the Hobby and thing I've experienced in pretty much every internet venue talking about audio. Just responding to the subject of this thread.
Simply say hey I bought this Cable/DAC/Transport and thought it sounded...
Wells that's what I think is wrong with this hobby, to much harassment of opinions and not enough leeway for enjoyment and to many time others try to tell you what you hear and what biases you have based on some unrelated null tests that you did not participate in and have nothing to do with the...
People claim snake oil for everything, everything sounds the same, you can't possibly hear difference in anything, to the point where people get harrased for even giving subjective opinions about what they thought of a device/cable/high res album.
The Snake oil/ABX/Everything sounds the same...
I think people in this hobby would be better off if they just purchased what they thought was a value to them and stopped being on a crusade to mock and tear down high end audio and people who enjoy the hobby.
I find on many audio forums their are so many people crying "snake oil" and insisting...
I despised early mp3 when it was using a mechanism called "joint stereo", not only compressed like modern MP3 but this feature neutered the stereo imaging.
I don't think I like the overall legacy that MP3 left on music, an entire generation that heard cymbals and high end freq and thought it...
Yea things like this can certainly be preference based, I think their is definitely something to the idea that we perceive audio in some way shape or form and freqs we can't actually audibly hear. For me I do not enjoy that missing info in lower res audio.
So when people discuss High res and...