Re: audio culture nonsense?

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:05:15, Serge Auckland wrote:
> Amplifiers *can* be tested objectively, and the measurements are very 
> well understood. Blind testing has shown that there is no audible
difference 
> between amplifiers if the measurements don't show up differences. These 
> tests were done many years ago, and, as far as I'm aware, have never
been 
> proved wrong.

Perhaps even more im****tantly: Testing has shown that many things:
amplifiers, DACs, trans****ts, codecs, etc, that _do not_ measure
similarly can be perceived as "no difference" depending on the
thresholds of the differences and the test signals.  And the predicted
thresholds we get from anatomy and other sources agree with the
observed thresholds of audible differences we find with quick-switched
blind testing.

We can measure things far more accurately than we can actually hear!

-alan

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