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From: greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD player differences
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:51:38 EDT
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> 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