My trusty Sony DVP-S500D has finally given up the ghost after many years of service in my headphone rig. The great thing about it was its option to attenuate the analog output. The manual didn't say how much, but I'd guess no more than -6dB. This was important to me, as I'm a Grado fan, and my...

Wavoman's latest post has cleared things up greatly for me. So much energy spent arguing against things which no one has suggested, such as averaging results or not re-testing positive results. I don't care how large or small the sample size is, if even one subject can repeatedy show...

Ah, well put, b0dhi. I see what you're talking about, now. The rigid science part of my brain still says, "if a subject can report a subconscious preference for A or B, they can also report a preference/non-preference for X." But knowing that subjects are human, perhaps a simple preference...

Never said it was a bad thing, paulz. Just not very scientifically useful. Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi How do you know that a hypothetical difference in the sound won't result in a larger subconscious response than a conscious one? It's well established that the subconscious...

Quote: Originally Posted by wavoman I am giving a way for the repsonse bias -- which comes from tension felt by the Subjects (hereafter "Ss") -- to be channeled to a "less harmful" reply. Think about the same tension during A/B/X testing -- forced to pick "same" or "different", and not...

Quote: Originally Posted by b0dhi One of the huge flaws in the DBT methodologies I've come across has been that they assume that someone that says they're a golden-ear (whether corroborated anecdotally or not), is one. That's bad experimental design. If your experiment aims to test the...

Quote: Originally Posted by obobskivich you don't see what I'm getting at, thats my point I see exactly what you're getting at, cup, and I completely agree with your central premise. The problem is that you're arguing against a strawman of the comparison by contrast method, not...

Quote: Originally Posted by bobsmith I do however think that there are some inherent problems with DBT that cannot be corrected. As I said before, I think that the human brain is much better at spotting differences when it knows what to look for. This does not mean that those...

Quote: Originally Posted by upstateguy I'm looking for any evidence, collected by any methodology. "Any methodology" can produce results (not evidence) to advance anything a person is trying to prove. What you should be looking for are results gathered by scientifically valid...

Quote: Originally Posted by obobskivich now to the point at hand, this is what I believe the OP to be after, something that doesn't get in the way of his music, this is not neutral sound, this is simply (as we've been telling him), good sound What the OP asked about was how to...

Meier-Audio crossfeed Opinions differ, but I think it's a very good thing.

Quote: Originally Posted by swayne I have two Meier amps, an Arietta and a 3Move and the crossfeed is on all the time. Occasionally turn it off to experiment, but it's back on again within minutes. I should've mentioned that all my crossfeed experience is with Meier amps, as...

Quote: Originally Posted by obobskivich oh, I understand what its getting at, basically instead of picking your favorite 2 or 3 test tracks, listen to the majority of your catalog, see which shows an improvement "overall" its basically law of large #'s logic Not exactly. It's...

I think it's important to bring up the caveats The Audio Critic (publication that got this conversation started) puts on the "all amps sound the same" claim. They state that any two well-designed amplifiers will sound indistiguishable from one another if they both:have a high input impedence...

I love crossfeed. Without it, material that's panned anywhere near the edges sounded to me like it was stuck right to the driver. It was distracting to be made so aware of the driver's exact physical location. Crossfeed narrows the soundstage, so even hard-panned instruments are projected as an...