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Old 12th Oct 2017, 9:48 pm   #103
mark_in_manc
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Default Re: Audiophoolery. 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!

Just thought I'd mention that a few years ago Bech and Zacharov was a good text for getting into psychoacoustic testing, and Roederer was a good intro to psychoacoustics in general.

I had a few students do ABX projects in an IEC-spec listening room on fancy speaker cable vs long lengths of bell wire, sometimes left on the reel! They used reasonably-sized (and sometimes audiologically-screened) test panels, and messed around with all sorts of fancy stats, ANOVA etc etc. No-one ever showed a repeatable difference (let alone preference) once the extraneous variables were controlled. But you knew all that - this is one of those 'science has shown us the obvious' stories. Luckily it was student work, and no-one had defrauded the EPSRC over it.
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