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In Reply to: Re: I agree... posted by Ted Smith on January 9, 2007 at 18:36:29:
Well I guess the way I see it is that once beyond the question of "can I recognize a difference?", ... and sometimes let's say when comparing two interconnects a certain tune may not lend itself to noticing much, if any, differences ... but once past that point everything for me centers around the *next* question... "which do I prefer?"I'm not saying I never get lead astray, that I don't sometimes think "Yeah, I like that better" only to find that the particular *that* upon examination with more material proves to be an overbearing quality that is ultimately determined to be not a plus but rather a negative. Beyond that there have been cases where longer term listening (i.e. not A-Bing but living with an item) has revealed things that have caused re-evaluation.
But that's not what I was getting at. What I meant was merely the process of A-Bing with fast switching, the process of attempting to detect a sonic difference *at the very instant of the switch*. This type of comparing, and I suspect that most *do* concentrate hard on the *instant of switch* is a generally useless activity in that it seems to almost always yield a *no diffeence* event. I would maintain that differences have to be grotesquely obvious to be detected with the fast switching technique. That's what I have found, it simply does not seem to lend itself to the concentrated listening that I find much more effective for detecting and analysing differences.
Again I believe a lot of befuddled thought related to ideas, even *facts*, about short term aural memory are responsible for the emphasis that has been given to fast switching, ABX boxes, etc. However I suspect that any testing, DBT, SBT, whatever... is basically doomed if it relies on fast switching. It's just my opinion mind you.
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