Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD player differences Message-ID: <4150@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:00:04 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4150 Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:00:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:26:40 EDT References: <456@olivee.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 17 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?