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I most definitely changed my perspective

And I think it is fair to say that the state of audio has changed a great deal over the past 38 years since I first got into high end audio.

I base my beliefs on what looks to me to be the best sources of information. Once I had the mechanisms of bias effects and how we process sound thoroughly explained to me I had to rethink a lot of what I believed about audio.

I think the elephant in the room is what happens when we do blind listening tests. Alleged night and day differences somehow become undetectable.

Now that I know the basics of how we process sound it all makes perfect sense. But with that said what would be your alternate explination for this phenomenon? How do night and day differences become undetectable under blind level matched conditions? It is important to understand that in the field of psychoacoustics DBTs are the gold standard and used exlusively. And the research in that field has found DBTs to be the most sensitive and reliable form of listening evaluations for detecting differences and forming preferences based on sound alone. IOW differences areclearly heard in DBTs when they are there. It was how researchers established the thresholds of human hearing.

This video explains it quite well. Pay attention to the feed back loops used in our formation of aural memories. It's quite critical.




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