25 Sep
2007
25 Sep
'07
8:30 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:20:34PM +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 19:31 +0200, Fons Adriaensen
wrote:
Interesting. Were they tested individually or as a group?
If individually, that would seem to suggest that they actually could
hear a difference between cables, and that your lawnmower cable really
did sound better to them.
What gauge cord was it? :-)
If tested as a group, I wouldn't trust the results at all... group
psychology could account for a lot ("I hear it too!" "Me too!")
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
A nice variation on this theme occured years ago
at an AES conference.
The speaker wanted to demonstrate that 'digital' sound was crap, by
using the familiar 'push down the extended arm' test. Test persons
listening to analog sound could easily resist, while they lost all
force when listening to a digital recording.
What the speaker didn't know was that the PA system used to play the
tracks was fully digital...
I once helped prepare the equipment for a double-blind test of speaker
cables. All the golden-eared audophiles picked out one cable as being
far superior to the others, with better clarity and definition in the
upper harmonics and tighter more defined bass or some such bollocks.