Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Phil Karn and other CD nuts, please read! Message-ID: <1684@randvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 17:24:35 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1684 Posted: Sat Feb 11 17:24:35 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:12:06 EST References: <1459@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 19 -------------------------- Consistancy of the listening environment is indeed something I didn't mention, but I fail to see how it applies. Any distortions produced by your equipment become part of that `environment', just as much as sound absorption and reflection do. And unless any of these effects cause sound you find disagreeable, you'll accept them as `natural'. It's my opinion that any audiophile who claims `golden ears' should first study psychology, and see how much expectation and previous experience affect perception. If you believe that the color of your listening room influences the sound, you'll hear exactly that. A double-blind study is the *only* way to provide an objective measure of sound quality. So far as a subjective measure of what *I* like, I prefer to compare reproduced sound with the real thing. An opinion, only. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall