RIP ABX/DBT listening tests
The time has come to write an epitaph and bury an audio
red herring - DBT/ABX listening "test"
Three days ago I posted a challenge (not for the first time) to Mr.
Krueger in particular, but open to anyone: to quote a reference to one
single paper reporting a listening test of audio components where the
panel using ABX/DBT successfully differentiated between ANY comparable
audio components- a paper judged to be good enough to be accepted by a
professional audio journal.
My question was met with deafening silence.
In science any proposal for a testing method which in forty years has
not had any experimental evidence to support it is dead.
And good riddance. What a waste of ink and time it has been
Ludovic Mirabel
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