I believe Colloms actually expressed dismay at what he created with Stereophile subjective reviews, too late of course, and he certainly criticized audio press in general for soft reviews to please advertisers
Bill if you read my posts I clearly and again state that what you make is a reflection of you, or me. There will always be a person involved. This is also the case in any ABX. How questions are asked and how answers are interpreted. It doesn't matter because in the end you make your choices and reach your conclusions.
What I find is that there's most often a connection between my findings and that of others. And most often also correlation between what I find when I examine my results with a technical due diligence.
Like what I posted earlier how CFA seems to perform worse than VFA with multi tones. Something I started looking into as I did not get the listening results I had hoped for.
What I find is that there's most often a connection between my findings and that of others. And most often also correlation between what I find when I examine my results with a technical due diligence.
Like what I posted earlier how CFA seems to perform worse than VFA with multi tones. Something I started looking into as I did not get the listening results I had hoped for.
If you hang around with enough people on the internet you will find another who shares your view.
Yes, you've been clear that you're unfamiliar with sensory research in general and hedonic evaluation in particular. Somehow, people manage to do terrific work without CT scanners. Of course, you actually have to read their papers to discover this.
Plus the mention of fMRI and CT scans sends many of us scurrying when it comes to quality tests. (There are too many papers that go, "HEY! We just got this $10 million 8T MRI machine, let's figure out what we can use it for!")
Thanks Bcarso, I respect Martin Colloms as one of the best Hi Fi journalists who ably edited HFNRR for a time, AND they use good test equipment to supplement their reviews. I have his book on high performance speakers and have studied it closely. (Pity KEF no longer makes good drivers like the B139 B110 anf T127 available) I guess writing about audio is essentially difficult, as is finding language to describe good wine. But sorry, folks, with corresponding trepidation I cannot like some subjectivist language.
I need to filter my searches better. After getting past the economic theory, I wound up
here.
Not the identical topic, but not a total waste either. It could be useful history and perspective, some I can agree with and some I cannot.
He's a reviewer, but I dislike his "Why 4 words when 20 will do?" style.
I have had better luck with Static Induction Transistors, which are similar in
character to Triodes than with Mosfets, which are similar to Pentodes.
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I will need to get back to you on sources, but what I read compared emotional responses to music across cultures and to tribes isolated from the modern world who had no musical reference. People who did not have exposure to western music did not have the conditioned responses normally expected to happy/sad/stirring melodies.
I would think subjecting people to CT simply for taking data on the emotional connection to music would be irresponsible science especially since there is poor understanding of simple brain activity in the presence of aural stimulus.
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You are talking about cultural differences. Every culture has their own music and their folk have emotional response to their music.
This is a tough call, traditional Japanese or Chinese opera is a difficult listen for some western ears (not mine) and then there is Tuvan throat singing. The differences are so extreme from, say Mozart, can you say it's simply conditioning?
There is certainly something that is not in our infant programming or as part of any survival instinct, but it appears to be heavily tied into the reward centre.
My wife loves classical (60s) classical Indian singing. I think it sounds like the poor woman is being strangled. And Sitar just makes me hum strawberry fields forever.
Not sure what field of study this ends up under tho!
My wife loves classical (60s) classical Indian singing. I think it sounds like the poor woman is being strangled. And Sitar just makes me hum strawberry fields forever.
Not sure what field of study this ends up under tho!
Yes, let's stick to brain injury/tumors/degeneracy for CT. It's an expensive enough procedure as it stands, and us ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) folk don't look kindly at irradiating people's brains for such research.
It's bad enough trying to get IRB approvals as it stands!
I could bury you with this stuff.😉 Maybe on guitar it's easier for you. Brij Bhushan Kabra is the foremost exponent of Indian classical music on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNx4iY1nEI
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