Re: [ARSCLIST] The Emperor's New Sampling Rate By Paul D. Lehrman Mix Magazine April 2008

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I shall be interested to read your article. Like I said, my opinion (and this is _ALL_ about 
opinions and perceptions, at base) is that the BAS tests are not useful except to show that most 
people on a system not their own don't have finely-atuned hearing and that CD's and hi-rez sound 
close enough to lead most people most of the time to choose preference in a semi-random fashion when 
not on the system they are atuned to. "Passing" or "failing" the test isn't going to convince most 
people with an opinion about this to change it.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clark Johnsen" <clarkjohnsen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The Emperor's New Sampling Rate By Paul D. Lehrman Mix Magazine April 2008


> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > I'm sure we'll get the usual chorus about how listening tests are
> > notoriously (fill in the blank) but I am not about the challenge the Boston
> > Audio Society on their findings.
>
>
> Then allow me. The Meyer and Moran (BAS) tests were seriously flawed, and
> that the JAES published the article attests to a highly questionable
> peer-review process. The errors in their setup have been discussed on other
> forums, and perhaps even here, so I won't go into them unless some interest
> is expressed. A small group of us is preparing a reply for publication,
> because we hate to see that shoddy "work" left standing.
>
> Clark Johnsen, AES Life Member