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Blind Testing

In an archived thread, Doug Schneider wrote:

> As I wrote to John [Atkinson] on a thread that's presumably way, way
> down...I also noted that in his pseudo-blind test he said he identified
> MQA 5 out of 8 times.

Just to clarify, I scored 4 our of 7 correct in this blind test (see link
below). But as I later explained, 2 out of the 3 I got wrong were the same
track, Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters," where I misidentified it as what I
thought was the better-sounding MQA version. Specifically, I preferred the
quality of the bass on what turned out to the original hi-rez file.

If you eliminate those 2 failures, I got 4 out of 5 correct in blind
comparisons on the other tracks, which, while still not statistically
significant, is relevant information, I feel.

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile


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Topic - Blind Testing - John Atkinson 04:13:08 10/28/16 (49)

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