brianlangevin

Onyx Deeper does a good job with adjusting Lion's "features" and you can undo it all.

Someone hit the mark. When I can, I take the time to listen to the sound quality. My wife is content to sing along and could certainly care less if the speakers cost $10 or $10,000. My daughter will walk around the house listening to music through the speaker on her Touch, in which case I would almost rather not listen at all.<br /> <br /> I recently bought "Get Better Sound" to learn and get the most from my paltry system. I'm glad to say the changes I made were positive. Again, spouse and daughter chuckled when I was measuring, listening, and repositioning.<br /> <br /> I will not buy lossy music, but who cares since I/we are in the minority.

I would like to thank whoever posted with regard to the Harman "Learn to Listen" software. This is very eye opening from a listening education standpoint. I suspect it will make me a more discerning listener and shopper. I can't thank you enough as this puts this entire topic into perspective.

It would seem that knowing how it sounded live in the studio would be the ultimate comparison. It had to listened to for the first time by some method ... Reference headphones, control room monitors, etc. Are we parsing and arguing just to argue? I don't see anything constructive in this response.

My oh my. Thanks for telling me to reread and that I am wrong. Also, please be polite and don't extrapolate facts not in evidence. Where did I say I wanted to trick the listener or use people with no experience? Geez, I'm after objectivity, not treachery. In previous posts I stated that you need to know what your source material should sound like. If your testing is being done with classical, and you have no experience with what an oboe should sound like, it could be a kazoo as far as the listener is concerned. And, once again, I never said that I wanted inexperienced testers.

I don't believe I agree with living with equipment for a while to essentially 'learn' the sound. My disagreement is that learning the 'sound' of a particular product means, at least to me, that you know what you are listening to, and that would seem to be quite a bias whether it be conscious or subconscious. Once you learn it, then blind testing becomes less meaningful. If I know how something sounds, then doesn't it follow that I am likely to recognize it with less brain processing? If I recognize the sound of something it is much more difficult to be objective. It would seem to me that the less you 'know' the more meaningful blind testing is.

Senior Product Engineer for a contract manufacturing company.

Hi, I have an iMic and want to squeeze as much out of it as possible. I'm confused by this statement from Griffin "The iMic itself does all internal processing at 24bit resolution but the Mac OS currently has a more narrow range of options, topping out at 16bit/48KHz. Third party USB ASIO drivers will allow the iMic to support up to 24-bit resolution." I was under the impression that an ASIO driver is for Windows? So if the iMic is actually 24/48, why can't I select that in the Audio Midi setup when I select the iMic? I can select up to 24/96 with Built-In Input. When using Audacity, what should my Project Rate be? 48000? I am computer literate but not when it comes to audio setups. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - Brian

I have commented on this thread because my audio education search led me to CA. There are lots of great posts here. And while I can't afford a lot of the mid priced gear, I am hoping to learn to make the most out of what I have, and, make wise choices on any new purchases.

ABX testing is a straight forward practice, although maybe not simple to employ for audio, but ... I don't care that we hear differently on different days. If you have a valid setup that is used over several days, with a statistically valid number of people, then it will work, period. My caveat would be that the testers must be aware of what the source material 'should' sound like. We are getting all worked up over nothing. So what that I may have tin ears and others have golden. Some wine tasters are considered super tasters. It makes no difference. If it sounds better today it will sound better tomorrow even if the humidity is different. Unless I see true testing using empirical methods and measurements, it's all subjective. Every time I read a "high-end" Stereophile-like review I feel like I'm reading an art review. Sorry, sit me in a chair, put a blindfold on me, load some sonically superior music, and my ears won't lie to me.

Hello,<br /> <br /> I just joined CA today and was wondering if the previous downloads are still available?<br /> <br /> Great site.<br /> <br /> Cheers,<br /> <br /> Brian