blind listening tests

Hello ASR members, We are a group of scientists at Imperial College London working on a new digital audio sensing technology. We have only recently been able to realize the full hardware and signal-processing pipeline. As an initial proof of concept, we are running a short blind listening...

I tried to upgrade my system and ran into abit of roadblock. Main music type is electro pop, but I listen to all genre and watch movies. The upgrade goal was to get a system that had the best spatial cues(the sound environment)/ holographic imaging, and clarity/very clean bass. *Current set...

I follow a bunch of reviewers on YouTube for assessing headphones, dacs and amps. But I am tired of these subjective comparisons which are sometimes quite ridiculous. Are there anyone out there who exclusively relies on blind AB or ABX testing to compare different products? I know ASR exists on...

Shortly after completing the first blind listening test, @Inverse_Laplace and I started thinking about all the ways we’d like to improve the rigor and explore other questions. Written summary follows, but here is a video if you prefer that medium: Speakers (calculated preference score in...

Hey guys, thought I would share my result of a mini blind test. Just got my PS Audio DSD DAC MKii and wanted to compare it to my previous PS Audio DSD Jr DAC. As a bonus, my friend also brought his Marantz CD player over because we wanted to see if the CD version would sound better than the...

I’ve had two older amps recapped by Peter Williams at Quirk Audio in the past two years. Peter does great work, but now I’m faced with the decision on which amp to keep in my main setup. To help with the comparison over the summer, I’d like to get an amp/source selector switch. Do any of you...

I've searched this and not found a thread elsewhere. In another forum, someone posted this: (https://www.harbeth.co.uk/usergroup/threads/harbeth-techtalk-to-stimulate-discussion.80476/page-2#post-101241) And they go on to interpret it as: the curves appear to suggest that the JND [Just...

Howdy folks, thought I should share an interesting study I came across, which was published just now: Listening tests in room acoustics: Comparison of overall difference protocols regarding operational power...

After finishing @Floyd Toole 's The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms, I became interested in conducting a blind listening test. With the help of a similarly minded friend, we put together a test and ran 12 people through it. I’ll describe our procedures and the results...

There are requests to record outputs of two different power amplifiers and prepare a listening test with such recorded files. I have decided to answer the challenge again and recorded files from 2 different class AB amplifiers, loaded with real speakers. One of the amplifiers has about 6 times...

I present to you abxtests.com, a browser based app for double blind AB and ABX listening tests. This is effectively Listening Tests as a Service, meaning you'll be able to create your own listening tests easily and share it with other people. The primary target user would be an audio scientist...

I wanted to find out if I can hear a channel imbalance of 0.5 db and 0.25 db when listening with headphones. In order to simulate a channel imbalance I recorded some sounds with a mono microphone, duplicated the track in audacity and exported it with identical left and right channels, +0.25 db...

Thought I'd start a new thread about this. For quite some time I've been intrigued by blind testing, and whether that's the end all be all when it comes to audible differences in audio (or preferences). A couple of years ago, when I was still struggling in the passive quagmire, this led me to...

It seems intuitive that we would all have different tastes in sound reproduction. After all, there are thousands of different brands and models of speakers each with a different sound. Surely that is due to different people liking different sounds. Another fact that bolsters this intuition is...