Popular Post Chris987654321 Posted July 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2020 It’s a really sad time in audio history with high tech dominating the discussion, mainly by utilizing the double-blind test in the favor of selling tech to maintain salaries worthy of the engineer’s higher educations. The proclaiming that biases are at the root of enjoyment so we must eliminate them to accurately know something, is short sighted. The blind test: now that it has been used much more frequently for over a decade.. I’ve come to realize is foolish as it engages only the ear, nothing else. It is difficult to understand a moment where only the ear shall decide the quality. Speech communication perhaps? Hearing aids? There I see an argument. Music is neither. It is ENTERTAINMENT. in the area of entertainment, it is very important to stimulate as many senses as possible. And mainly the 6th sense... the sense of engagement. In addition to sound, by stimulating the visual cortex and the also with physical touch, it can trigger impressions in the engagement of the user, and make them enjoy the experience more. Or turn them off if both visual and physical appear to be poor quality. As you can see, we’ve been going down a foolish path, one that offers little enjoyable benefit. Maybe a poor person can convince themselves they now have the best? There’s a benefit I guess. What I’ve seen is a lot of unwarranted and unneeded criticism toward more expensive equipment, using the blind test as a means to disrupt and sell more quantity of lower quality products. Apple iPod and later iPhone comes to mind, since the original poor quality compressed audio paid for their rescue. And also had a hand in much of the double blind science worship coincidentally. as you can see.. the money of a company worth $1trillion has an interest in audio. They are getting better, I don’t really care..Someday I won’t be surprised if Apple wants to sell audiophile gear, and magically all the science will be against double blind testing. Currently if someone wants to waste $40k on snake oil, that’s their right. And they probably are enjoying the experience more than anyone. Teresa, daverich4 and Audiophile Neuroscience 3 Link to comment
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