On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:35:29PM +0200, Peder Hedlund wrote: > I saw a test where a bunch of professional musicians and engineers > listened to a guitar player playing an old $5000 Les Paul and a $500 > copy and were asked to tell which was the expensive one. About half > of them failed, including the guitar player in the group. > The same was true for a Stradivarius and a cheap beginners violin, > though IIRC the violin player was correct. Isn't there a thing called hearing fatigue? Where you may not be able to acurately tell the difference in a blind test, (hell, even bad gear can sound better to certain people playing certain music.) but where, after a longish period of time, the listener may tire and get fatigued with the cheaper stuff? (e.g. beginners violin) compared to a lot longer listening period on say, a Stradivarius? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
