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RE: Here's an alternative to "controlled", which I'll probably do, when get around to it:

You are on the right track. But you are not quite there. The problem is that one set of rips would be done earlier than the latter and this might be reflected in the way they got written onto the PC. (For example, the drive might have become fragmented during the course of operations.) I suggest you have your wife randomize the file names first on the original drive. Then you can copy the files in order of file name on to a second drive. Then have her randomize the file names a second time. And then copy them onto a third drive. And then you can do the listening. If you get 8 out of 10 then you will have some traction with me. But then there will be more experiments that can be done to weed out alternative scenarios.

Note: you had best reformat all the drives involved prior to this experiment. And no solid state drives, or spinning rust drives that have any revectored sectors, either. The SSDs are hopeless, because of the revectoring that goes on under the name of "wear leveling". If you were to copy the files into a RAM disk that would be best. Make sure that each file resides on the RAM disk for a minute or two, so that it will be refreshed many times before you listen. You can color me paranoid if you like, but I retain the memory of a high school physics experiment that was supposed to measure acceleration of gravity that ended up measuring the power line frequency.

I could not use my wife for my audio experiments. She explained that she could hear the differences between the amplifiers I was listening to, but she thought it was irrelevant. She told me she could care less about the sounds, rather she was concerned with what the musicians were thinking during the performance. She was a musician, not an audiophile.




Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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