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Floyd Toole : Hearing is believing vs believing is hearing

"However, in the sighted tests, the ratings were very strongly differentiated, and they did not change appreciably between the two sets of room locations. In other words, in this test, when listeners knew what they were listening to, the opinions were dictated more by the product identity than by the sound."

"Some of us would like to think that we can ignore visual factors when arriving at opinions of sound quality...but can we?"

"Obviously, listeners' opinions were more attached to the products that they could see, than they were to the differences in sound associated with program."

"...the fact that the listeners knew what was being listened to caused them to be much less responsive to real differences in sound quality (caused by changes in loudspeaker position in the room)."


AES convention paper 3894, 97th AES convention, 1994


Klaus



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