[LAU] turning a consumer soundcard into "prosumer" w/ quasi-balanced outs

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:29:40PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:

> It can be surprising how often this is the case -- differences that
> you can describe, articulate, and explain in normal listening can
> surprisingly often turn out not to be distinguishable at all under
> proper test conditions.  Embarrassingly so, sometimes.

There was a famous incident at one of the US AES conventions
in the early years of digital. Some audio guru wanted to show
that digital was crap using the 'pushing down the extended arm'
test popular with all sorts of pseudo-scientists.

His test subjects would be able to resist when listening to
an analog recording, but not when listening to a digitial one
of the same music. 

100% success rate, until someone remarked that the house PA
was using a digitial mixer, and the sound engineer was playing
the 'analog' track from a DAT copy...

Ciao,

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