03-Feb-2016, 18:53
Interesting comments overal. Seems like some of you have already made up your minds 
What mostly interests me is the expectation bias and how I'm supposed to be 'caught' by that. I'm not sure how I will work around that but I can say that at this point in time I really have no expectation either way. As I said, I'm doing this to find out for myself whether or not I hear a difference. I'm not in the business of proving a position.
I have a few interesting tests that I thought of using.
I have songs that I really love but don't enjoy the quality of. Certainly, if there's an improvement in SQ or even a change, I should be enjoying those song more or less. I'm particularly sensitive to voices and whether or not they sound natural.
There are some subtle background noises on songs I know well. A few live recordings have audience members talking. I can hear them talking but so far I haven't been able to understand what they are saying, ever. So if I were to plug in my new cable and can instantly understand what they are saying then I can clearly says the cable makes the difference. Changing back to the old cable could easily confirm this.
I'm very well aware of the shortcomings I need to work around. Some nights I'm just too tired to enjoy music. Some nights I haven't set my chair up in the right spot. Sometimes there's too much wind or rain around creating back ground noise. Lots of influences.
A bit about my ears; I used the be able to hear some freaky high frequencies. One example is that when I walked into a customer's home I heard this awful high pitch tone. It really annoyed me. I then found one of those plug in pest control things. It sends out a high pitch tone to annoy pests and they will leave the house. The client didn't believe I could hear it so we did a test. The device had an LED to tell when the tone was on. I could tell 100% when it was on or off with my back towards it. Talking about a bind test!
Another high pitch tone came from my wife's previous car that had an anti rust device installed in it. Where we used to live it was parked in the garage and I could hear that too. She and anyone else I asked couldn't.
Those days are over though. My ears aren't what they used to be. I still get annoyed by high pitch tones but not that high.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to starting my test. First i have to get home...we've finished the job but the roads out are flooded...Bugger!
What mostly interests me is the expectation bias and how I'm supposed to be 'caught' by that. I'm not sure how I will work around that but I can say that at this point in time I really have no expectation either way. As I said, I'm doing this to find out for myself whether or not I hear a difference. I'm not in the business of proving a position.
I have a few interesting tests that I thought of using.
I have songs that I really love but don't enjoy the quality of. Certainly, if there's an improvement in SQ or even a change, I should be enjoying those song more or less. I'm particularly sensitive to voices and whether or not they sound natural.
There are some subtle background noises on songs I know well. A few live recordings have audience members talking. I can hear them talking but so far I haven't been able to understand what they are saying, ever. So if I were to plug in my new cable and can instantly understand what they are saying then I can clearly says the cable makes the difference. Changing back to the old cable could easily confirm this.
I'm very well aware of the shortcomings I need to work around. Some nights I'm just too tired to enjoy music. Some nights I haven't set my chair up in the right spot. Sometimes there's too much wind or rain around creating back ground noise. Lots of influences.
A bit about my ears; I used the be able to hear some freaky high frequencies. One example is that when I walked into a customer's home I heard this awful high pitch tone. It really annoyed me. I then found one of those plug in pest control things. It sends out a high pitch tone to annoy pests and they will leave the house. The client didn't believe I could hear it so we did a test. The device had an LED to tell when the tone was on. I could tell 100% when it was on or off with my back towards it. Talking about a bind test!
Another high pitch tone came from my wife's previous car that had an anti rust device installed in it. Where we used to live it was parked in the garage and I could hear that too. She and anyone else I asked couldn't.
Those days are over though. My ears aren't what they used to be. I still get annoyed by high pitch tones but not that high.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to starting my test. First i have to get home...we've finished the job but the roads out are flooded...Bugger!
Lifetime Roon, Mac mini, int. SSD, ext. HDD, tv as monitor, key board and track pad on bean bag as remote,Devialet 200, Od'A #097, Blue jeans speaker cable,
Dynaudio C1 MkII.
Jim Smith's GBS.
Northern NSW Australia.
Dynaudio C1 MkII.
Jim Smith's GBS.
Northern NSW Australia.
