I'm holding a seminar here next week.
$3500 per seat, includes snacks and party favors.
$3500 per seat, includes snacks and party favors.
I get a 25 yo smokin hot hooker with that?I'm holding a seminar here next week.
$3500 per seat, includes snacks and party favors.
Cheapskate.Sure, bring her along...
This is exactly where a typical ABX will fail - people keep forgetting that the brain is always trying to reconcile differences in sounds which have meaning, and will do an excellent job of correlating two versions with a slight variation. I've done this sort of things a number of times - and have been aware of how the differences go away the more I listen. The test is guaranteed to fail, because it's a dumb test - it doesn't take into account the "cleverness" of the hearing system in being able to fill the gaps ...I hear no difference 8/9.
Time for fas42 to try an ABX, I think.
This is exactly where a typical ABX will fail - people keep forgetting that the brain is always trying to reconcile differences in sounds which have meaning, and will do an excellent job of correlating two versions with a slight variation. I've done this sort of things a number of times - and have been aware of how the differences go away the more I listen. The test is guaranteed to fail, because it's a dumb test - it doesn't take into account the "cleverness" of the hearing system in being able to fill the gaps ...
By all means do an ABX to confirm your prejudices ... and thereby learn, nothing ...
Frank, do you expect two bottles of water out of a six pack at the store to taste markedly different?I'm happy to be confused, that's my goal in fact - hands up those whose systems will confuse me into thinking that their playback of a pipe organ recital recording is in fact the real thing ...
No ... and relevance?Frank, do you expect two bottles of water out of a six pack at the store to taste markedly different?
Now, the big question is, what is that "distortion" doing to the subjective listening?
The channels are reversed in 8/9 compared to original, files 2 and 3 are not reversed.
Glitch in both 8 and 9 at 0.045 seconds from the beginning of the data, not in 2 and 3.
OK, listened to versions 8 and 9. Again, no contest - 8 has a piece of cloth draped over the mic, that's the subjective impression. All the attack elements in the sound have been dulled, it's boring to listen to.
Did you reverse something at your end perhaps?
Ah, this will be because I started to use the Tascam's 'auto start' recording feature. It was set to -54dB. Sorry if that added some unnecessary complexity...
Ray, how difficult would it be to get a difference file between #8/#1 and #9/#1? It would be really useful to me to know how accurate my DAC/ADC chain is.