I was finally able to do the test, I scored a 10 correct out of 16. About as good as I would have expected: some dice could have done better as @solderdude showed
That was really hard! I thought one was a bit brighter and there was more "black between the notes" (pardon my audiophile indulgence), but it could all be imagination.
Also hard was the fact that I kept trying to see history in A, B and X, so I tied to correlate past memory to the new values, but obviously, that doesn't work. The colours might not have helped either I would also have liked a keyboard interface, so one could switch between A, B and X without needing to look... Who knows, doing it actually blind might be beneficial? Also things like: "I already picked 'A' last time, what are the odds that it's again 'A'?" Mind you I'm not blaming my failures on any of these factors. If the difference would have been obvious, it would not have mattered either way.
My basic strategy was to first listen to A and B and determine the difference, and then try to match X to it. Well... It didn't pay off
Used MacOS + Dirac on Loxjie A30 via USB to KEF LS50 (original) nearfield.
That was really hard! I thought one was a bit brighter and there was more "black between the notes" (pardon my audiophile indulgence), but it could all be imagination.
Also hard was the fact that I kept trying to see history in A, B and X, so I tied to correlate past memory to the new values, but obviously, that doesn't work. The colours might not have helped either I would also have liked a keyboard interface, so one could switch between A, B and X without needing to look... Who knows, doing it actually blind might be beneficial? Also things like: "I already picked 'A' last time, what are the odds that it's again 'A'?" Mind you I'm not blaming my failures on any of these factors. If the difference would have been obvious, it would not have mattered either way.
My basic strategy was to first listen to A and B and determine the difference, and then try to match X to it. Well... It didn't pay off
Used MacOS + Dirac on Loxjie A30 via USB to KEF LS50 (original) nearfield.
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