Re: setting up ABX tests at home

"Steve" <goldstarsteve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:fof9i80sku@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Please seewww.pcabx.com.
> The training is very usefull. Thx!
>
>>
>> One big problem with real-time tests of various disc
>> players is that in addition to matching volume, you also
>> have to time-synch the two players. Otherwise, anybody
>> with halfway working ears can figure out the identities
>> of the players in an ABX test by listening to the timing
>> differences.

> I am switching manually so why not have each passage from
> the beginning or have my switcher go back a few seconds
> on the unit to be switched to before switching?

If you play each passage from the beginning, then you are commiting
yourself 
to what will turn out to be a highly insensitive test due to the excessive

time delays between hearing each alternative.

>> That leaves you with the input voltage range problem.
>> I've found that
>> a high quality 5 K ohm potentiometer can match up a PC
>> sound card with a wide variety of audio devices.
>
> I don't want to purchase HW esp when I don't even know
> how to pronounce it let alone where to put it!

Then I suggest that you obtain some experience with PCABX, before you try
to 
go it alone.