Thorsten Loesch
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Interesting. What do you attribute this consistently perceived and described sound signature differences among devices sufficiently free from audible distortion and noise?
Factors outside the purview of the specific objective tests used.
BTW, natural numbers is a large set, so I am not sure what >10 is but I am assuming it is not >20 otherwise you'd have mentioned it,
Numbers in different tests vary. Non I remember under the DAC heading had less than 10 participants.
Next to many Audio ABX tests this is a large number of subjects.
might be good enough for commercial purposes
It is.
But hope we will not call this a proof?
It is sufficient proof for me personally, to base engineering decisions on the test results.
My tests were never intended to prove anything in this stupid idiocy ongoing objectivist vs subjectivists debate.
And even if I had put in the extra work to produce something for publication, it would only have:
1) Given away information that provides a competitive advantage for free to competitors (I would call that really, really stupid) without any return whatsoever.
2) Being told by the people I try to convince of my results (e.g. Audio Objectivists, Audio ABX Mafia, the Cargo Cult of SINAD and miscellaneous related pseudoscience groups in Audio with similar and overlapping positions) that because my test methodology is not Audio AXB it cannot be valid.
3) Risking to confuse and alienate ordinary customers with a the controversy. As they say, if you go wrestling a pig in the mud, not only will you get dirty, but the pig will beat you with it's experience and enjoy the whole thing.
Thor