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Article #317Re: Any Sony CD Guru out there?
From: Stewart Pinkerton
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:14
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:14
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:13:32 -0400, "Clyde Slick" <YustabeSlim@comcast.net> wrote: > >"Harry Lavo" <hlavo@comcast.net> wrote in message >news:3t2dnYqMZtkjVU7fRVn-tg@comcast.com... >> >> "Clyde Slick" <YustabeSlim@comcast.net> wrote in message >> news:42d36070$1_2@spool9-east.superfeed.net... >>> >>> "Stewart Pinkerton" <patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:eqm6d1p2dotgtu1j7vhck3gie5t6sbs3qk@4ax.com... >>>> On 11 Jul 2005 17:27:35 -0700, calcerise@hotmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> Arny isn't too keen on actually listening to audio products, since >>>>>they should all sound the same according to tests. >>>> >>>> >>>>In level-matched blind listening tests, these three >>>> players sound identical - as any reasonable person would expect. >>>> >>> >>> Damn it, there are those pesky expectation effects again. >> >> Clyde, don't you know that "expectation effects" only apply to those of us >> who disagree? Has nothing to do with those who *know* there is no >> difference. :-) > >And the abx test removes our expectations, yet leaves their expectations in. >It is a more biased test than subjective listening!!! >ABX is hideously flawed. Bullshit. What you mean is that ABX doesn't support your absolute knowledge that 'high-end' designer label gear *must* sound better than 'Chinky cheapies'. -- Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
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