A Brief History of CD DBTs
On Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:09:54 AM UTC-8, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Audio_Empire" wrote in message
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On Friday, December 21, 2012 10:38:52 AM UTC-8, wrote:
There's solid science that says the opposite is true--comparing brief
snippets of sound and switching quickly between them actually makes the
test more sensitive to differences, not less. Sean Olive's speaker
preference tests for Harman use per-speaker presentations measured in
seconds, not minutes. If longer presentations worked better, it would be
in Harman's economic interest to use them.
Here is just another reason why I think that DBTs for audio are a flawed
methodology.
What is flawed is pretending that ABX is only done with short snippets when
the opposite has been published in places like Audio magazine and said many
times on this forum.
How, for instance, are you going to tell whetherne DAC resolves image
specificity better than another with short snippets?
There the thread goes downhill again, based on posts pretending that the
author is smarter than science.
Yawn.
I get very tired of correcting the same egregious and illogical mistakes,
every time the topic comes up.
Fine, then don't answer such threads. But it was NAB who INSISTED that DBTs are best served
by short snipits lasting only a few seconds. This debate was aimed at him, not you.
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