In the past few days on these forums several members have begun to bring double blinded testing and other techniques for attempting unbiased assessment of audio into the discussion of non-DBT threads.
I have a bone to pick with the general DBT pack (there are exceptions), and its a relatively big one I believe. However, before I go passing judgment, i would like to hear any of you out, as well as help provide some reinforcement to S-philes keep DBT to the DBT forum policy.
Thus I would ask of anyone the following very loaded and very unexhaustive set of questions.
1) what do you believe is the precise question that DBT should address.
2) What are the variables involved in the process of taking electric signals from an amp and turning them into an individuals perception of music specifically, and how do you believe that a DBT properly accounts for them.
My bone is with anyone who cannot give a complete answer to these questions (and a few others to be posted when these are satisfied/i don't have classes in a few hours), and still believes that DBT is the correct way to go. Why the bone? Because pseudo-objectivity is far more misleading than blatant subjectivity.
IE, there are three ways to lie, Lies, Damn lies, and statistics.
I realize there are some very smart people out there who have given this lots and lots of thought, and I don't want to come across as condescending, I do want to insight some debate, not as to whether proper Blind trials could yield a useful result (I'm sure they could) but rather, what exactly that would entail.
My personal feeling is that, to conduct a meaningful DBT for the purposes of something like stereophile is ridiculous.
Cheers, I look forward to hearing from you
windzilla
In the past few days on these forums several members have begun to bring double blinded testing and other techniques for attempting unbiased assessment of audio into the discussion of non-DBT threads.
I have a bone to pick with the general DBT pack (there are exceptions), and its a relatively big one I believe. However, before I go passing judgment, i would like to hear any of you out, as well as help provide some reinforcement to S-philes keep DBT to the DBT forum policy.
Thus I would ask of anyone the following very loaded and very unexhaustive set of questions.
1) what do you believe is the precise question that DBT should address.
2) What are the variables involved in the process of taking electric signals from an amp and turning them into an individuals perception of music specifically, and how do you believe that a DBT properly accounts for them.
My bone is with anyone who cannot give a complete answer to these questions (and a few others to be posted when these are satisfied/i don't have classes in a few hours), and still believes that DBT is the correct way to go. Why the bone? Because pseudo-objectivity is far more misleading than blatant subjectivity.
IE, there are three ways to lie, Lies, Damn lies, and statistics.
I realize there are some very smart people out there who have given this lots and lots of thought, and I don't want to come across as condescending, I do want to insight some debate, not as to whether proper Blind trials could yield a useful result (I'm sure they could) but rather, what exactly that would entail.
My personal feeling is that, to conduct a meaningful DBT for the purposes of something like stereophile is ridiculous.
Cheers, I look forward to hearing from you
windzilla