Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site olivee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!oliveb!olivee!greg From: greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD player differences Message-ID: <463@olivee.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:51:38 EDT Article-I.D.: olivee.463 Posted: Mon Aug 19 17:51:38 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 06:34:40 EDT References: <456@olivee.UUCP> <4150@alice.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 27 > Greg Paley says: > > > I have to, quite frankly, dismiss the need for laboratory-perfect > > volume matching, at least for the type of listening comparison I find > > meaningful. > > Later in the same article, he says: > > > First off, I have to say that, contrary to the results of a previous > > CD comparison mentioned on the net, the results were NOT unanimous. > > We all heard definite differences between the three players, but > > came to radically different preferences based on what we heard. > > Hearing differences and not being able to agree on what they are > is a typical result of very slight level differences. Since you didn't > match levels, how do you know that mismatches don't account for > the differences you think you heard? I didn't say that we couldn't agree on what the differences were, but rather we disagreed about which sounds we preferred. I still feel that differences in output level would only have seriously affected the first few minutes of hearing either player. The other differences, which I described at some length in the original article, were of a nature, and heard over sufficiently long periods of time, that I can't attribute to level mismatches. - Greg Paley