shadesbass
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http://popmontreal.com/politique/en/node/1732#wars
http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/content/events/craven.pdf
I was in Royal Holloway College, UK, with Peter Craven, a small audience (including Tony Faulkner) and a video link to McGill University in Montreal, where a panel of AES members (Wieslaw Woszczyk, George Massenburg, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Martha de Francisco, Dave Derr & Eli Pasternak) and a small audience were gathered.
Just wondering if anyone here was at McGill or even in Royal Holloway?!
There were some very interesting points regarding high definition audio, surround/ambisonic setups, and listening tests. The most important of which for Headfi I feel was the 8-minute theory, whereby it is suggested that when listening to a new set of equipment, the brain/ears take up to 8 minutes to attune to the sound. This is obviously important to note when doing A-B listening tests, for example, listening to A then switching to B for less than 8 minutes may result in the ear/brain retaining some information about setup A, causing erroneous opinions/decisions.
Another interesting thought that was raised was the result of making unconscious decisions during listening tests. A subject may be concerned (unconsciously) with the act of making a decision rather than simply listening to the music.
There is evidence (apparently) that shows subjects of A-B tests preferred whichever setup they listened to longer, which ties in with the 8-minute theory and is quite possibly linked to unconscious decision making too...
I think the video link was recorded and put up on the web somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.
http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/content/events/craven.pdf
I was in Royal Holloway College, UK, with Peter Craven, a small audience (including Tony Faulkner) and a video link to McGill University in Montreal, where a panel of AES members (Wieslaw Woszczyk, George Massenburg, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Martha de Francisco, Dave Derr & Eli Pasternak) and a small audience were gathered.
Just wondering if anyone here was at McGill or even in Royal Holloway?!
There were some very interesting points regarding high definition audio, surround/ambisonic setups, and listening tests. The most important of which for Headfi I feel was the 8-minute theory, whereby it is suggested that when listening to a new set of equipment, the brain/ears take up to 8 minutes to attune to the sound. This is obviously important to note when doing A-B listening tests, for example, listening to A then switching to B for less than 8 minutes may result in the ear/brain retaining some information about setup A, causing erroneous opinions/decisions.
Another interesting thought that was raised was the result of making unconscious decisions during listening tests. A subject may be concerned (unconsciously) with the act of making a decision rather than simply listening to the music.
There is evidence (apparently) that shows subjects of A-B tests preferred whichever setup they listened to longer, which ties in with the 8-minute theory and is quite possibly linked to unconscious decision making too...
I think the video link was recorded and put up on the web somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.
