Ludovic,
Here's an interesting article of an honest attempt to conduct a test.
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...s-12-2004.html
What about this test?
http://www.stereophile.com/features/113/index1.html
which...as I've pointed out...it is easy to reduce an ABX test to this
condition.
or here's an idea....you could build this. Conduct your own test and
be the first successful ABX tester.
http://sound.westhost.com/abx-tester.htm
Here's a forum thread I stumbled across...RAO used to have discussions
like this.
then there was George...
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=913809
this link is interesting....Stereophile takes a hit :
Stereophile carried out a double-blind test and then examined the
results of only those subjects who got high scores. They concluded that
this group had demonstrated the ability to hear differences. This,
however, is statistically invalid: even for randomly generated answers,
in a large group 1 out of 20 subjects would be expected to satisfy the
95% criterion by chance alone. (This group represents the 5% that
you're 95% confident that a given subject doesn't fall into.) To
ascertain whether there really is a golden-eared group, they should
have selected the high scorers and used them for another series of
trials.
http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/ba...bx_testing.htm
and another here...BAS has it in for Stereophile?
http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/ba...l_thinking.htm
and Ludo..since your a keeper of the AES library...is there a positive
ABX test hidden in this paper?
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=12706
ScottW