Re: setting up ABX tests at home - ITU controls?

bear <bearlabs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Steven Sullivan wrote:
> > bear <bearlabs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Arny Krueger wrote:
> >>> "bear" <bearlabs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>> news:fp9jvb01hp7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>> Arny Krueger wrote:
> >>>>> "bear" <bearlabs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>> news:fp582c01a2c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Put it another way, IF the distortions present are of a
> >> <snip>ressing the problem of false positives.
> >>>> We can agree then that there are no tests that actually
> >>>> take into account this issue, therefore all tests thus
> >>>> far are suspect in terms of the significance of the test
> >>>> results?
> >>> Not at all. In fact there is an international standard, ITU  BS
1116, that 
> >>> specifically addresses this situation.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BS.1116/en
> >>>
> >> Available only by subscription or purchase.
> > 
> > specifically, it costs a whopping $20.26 to download.
> > 
> > ___
> > -S 
> > "Hey pip squeak, who's L Ron, some new rapper?" -- Nic 

> Since no one wants to state what it actually says in the sections where
it 
> applies to this discussion, I'll presume it says nothing that is
dispositive.

I don't know what it says, as I don't own a copy. Then again, I'm not 
the one insisting that what it says, needs to be posted here.

> Doubt that I will spend hard earned money to download a document that is
of 
> questionable value, and certainly not to merely debate here on rahe.

So, you've determined the value of an ITU recommendation, without knowing 
what it is. That talent must come in handy.

> Feel free to excerpt key sections - it's legal.

Feel free to spend a whopping $20 to satisfy your persistent curiousity.
That's legal too.  Btw, what do you spend each month for Usenet access?

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-S 
"Hey pip squeak, who's L Ron, some new rapper?" -- Nic