31-May-2020, 12:29
Part 1 of the results were published yesterday.
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/05/bl...-high.html
I have found it very interesting to look at the above versus my own listening notes. Could I easily discern the tracks in order of harmonic distortion? Frankly, no, I could not.
Looking at this in more detail though, it seams that the influence of harmonic distortion for me as a positive or a negative seems to vary depending on what specifically I am listening to. I shall certainly be interested to read the rest of the analysis.
It is also interesting to think back over the time I was listening to these tracks "blind" and also to relate this to the recent threads covering measurements. It is easy to worry about on-paper claims of THD of 0.0001 versus a measured 0.0016 or whatever, but a test like this helps to correlate this to an actual listening experience, and much higher THD numbers, which is fascinating I think.
It might also be fun to listen again now that the status of each version of the tracks has been published, to see if I can pick anything else up now expectation bias is fully primed with the actual data.
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/05/bl...-high.html
I have found it very interesting to look at the above versus my own listening notes. Could I easily discern the tracks in order of harmonic distortion? Frankly, no, I could not.
Looking at this in more detail though, it seams that the influence of harmonic distortion for me as a positive or a negative seems to vary depending on what specifically I am listening to. I shall certainly be interested to read the rest of the analysis.
It is also interesting to think back over the time I was listening to these tracks "blind" and also to relate this to the recent threads covering measurements. It is easy to worry about on-paper claims of THD of 0.0001 versus a measured 0.0016 or whatever, but a test like this helps to correlate this to an actual listening experience, and much higher THD numbers, which is fascinating I think.
It might also be fun to listen again now that the status of each version of the tracks has been published, to see if I can pick anything else up now expectation bias is fully primed with the actual data.
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