[Jim Gibson[_2_]]

In article , Audio_Empire
wrote:

On Friday, January 11, 2013 7:20:46 AM UTC-8, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Mark DeBellis" wrote in message

...


First, it seems to me that it's possible that there could be two
signals, say three minutes of music each, where I can't distinguish
one signal from the other when I compare them, switching back and
forth, but where, nonetheless, I get greater pleasure from listening
to the first one (in its entirety) than to the second.

The above is obviously self-contradictory.

Oh? I don't think that's necessarily true at all. People find that they
"like"
one thing over another without being able to tell anybody why all the time.

Nobody is asking why they like one of the samples, merely that if they
like X in an ABX test, then they should like either A or B, because one
of them is identical to X. If they like X but like neither A nor B,
then the either the test is faulty and X is not identical to one of A
or B, or the subject is using some random decision criteria not
associated with the audio signal on which to base their decision. If
they like X and like both A and B, then the audio signals are not
sufficiently different to make a difference in perceived sound quality.

--
Jim Gibson