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Posted by Axon (A ) on September 22, 2007 at 19:56:13

In Reply to: RE: That clears up a lot! posted by EBradMeyer on September 22, 2007 at 05:08:50:

I've already discussed a lot of this with David Moran on HydrogenAudio (see link).

People who are using my complaint to justify attacking the paper as a whole, who haven't read the paper themselves, definitely don't know how I feel about it. I don't have a problem with the conclusion at all. And for that to be true, ultimately, I don't have a problem with the test setup. I'll probably never be in as good of a position to evaluate the value of high res music as you were with your test setups. It's a result that, even if I were to take your setup with a grain of salt, is still a test well beyond my means both financially and in terms of my listening experience. So I trust it.

Still, I understand that much of the data was omitted either because the editors thought it was impertinent (ie, the music selections), or because it was perceived that no rational debate on the data is possible. The former can't be helped, but the latter seemed like a somewhat cavalier attitude to take, and one that confused me. Even though, as some others have pointed out, it's most likely true.

Like I said to David: "Trust us" is not a very reasonable argument to use in a technical paper. Clearly the editors disagreed, though, and I don't think one must resort to conspiracy theories to explain that. I'm still a little confused as to how much detail is acceptable for peer review, versus how much should ideally exist in a paper for the purposes of test reproduction and establishing trust in the test procedure.

Nevertheless: Thank you very much for doing this test!

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