Of course its quite possible he's biassed but in terms of gaining understanding it would need to be much more than possible, there would need to be some likelihood that he was biassed against Foobar and in favour of the other media players he's used instead. Which would require a testable hypothesis - do you have one?
You are asking a lot. It is impossible to identify the exact nature of the bias, as it is unconscious. Perhaps psychotherapy might uncover some reason, from which a question or hypothesis could formulate.
Until that time, the biggest question is: How do you know you are simply not affected by unconscious bias?
I suggest that the likelihood of bias entering the picture increases as a persons self importance increases.
Until that time, the biggest question is: How do you know you are simply not affected by unconscious bias?
I suggest that the likelihood of bias entering the picture increases as a persons self importance increases.
So that's a no - nothing testable. Of course everyone's affected by unconscious bias, that's the nature of being human.
I agree with your last statement - so how would you go about assessing a person's self-importance?
I agree with your last statement - so how would you go about assessing a person's self-importance?
In one sense I am a bit biased against foobar, because it's already come up short on one machine. Plus, on first try on another, it again did poorly with default settings - but at some stage I will go through a rigorous procedure of adjusting its working parameters, to give it the best chance.
Now, none of this is saying there is anything wrong in the conventional programming sense with a particular program, rather that the player overly exercises the circuitry of the motherboard, and elsewhere, and that circuitry behaviour causes audible interference effects. Simply because, the sound area of a cheap consumer item is not particularly robust against such things.
Numbers, regarding distortion, would be excellent - but they're not readily obtainable. OTOH, to say that unless you have numbers then you don't have something, is just as dumb as some of the tests I see done to "prove" something in audio, by getting "measurements" when there are obvious, huge gaps in the methodology.
Now, none of this is saying there is anything wrong in the conventional programming sense with a particular program, rather that the player overly exercises the circuitry of the motherboard, and elsewhere, and that circuitry behaviour causes audible interference effects. Simply because, the sound area of a cheap consumer item is not particularly robust against such things.
Numbers, regarding distortion, would be excellent - but they're not readily obtainable. OTOH, to say that unless you have numbers then you don't have something, is just as dumb as some of the tests I see done to "prove" something in audio, by getting "measurements" when there are obvious, huge gaps in the methodology.
Ah! Never tried that and I think I'll never will. I have no idea how the thing works.
sounds funny and guitarists and other musicians use it for effect.
And your speakers have to reproduce this effect faithfully.
And your speakers have to reproduce this effect faithfully.
I can tell you that the speedstability of your turntable or tapemachine will show its true colours in a jiffy.
I've got a Leslie sitting in my garage. It's a 2way with a spinning treble horn and a woofer that fires into a spinning scoop.
It's a lovely effect for organs and guitar and it is surprisingly complex to fake digitally.
It's a lot easier to come up with a convincing Hammond emulation.
This is just of interest if we want to know the source of Frank's potential bias. Which, frankly, doesn't interest anyone.
What is interesting is to know if foobar messes up the signal or not. We don't need anyone in particular to test that through DBT.
And, to go to the heart of the matter: testis unus, testis nullus. One can claim all he wants about distortion, unless it can be replicated reliably by someone else regardless of his own biases, it is of little or no value.
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