What causes grainy sound

Of course there is. What about experimenter bias?
That's why it has to be double blind. So the rechercher also doesn't know what's being tested.
This is normal practice.

What about bias of lay people in forums who don't understand what particular research shows?
That is not the fault of the science dudes.
Edit: And an excellent example of why you should listen to the actual science dudes.
 
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That's why it has to be double blind. So the rechercher also doesn't know what's being tested.

I wasn't referring to the experimenter working with the test subjects. What about the experimenters who designed the experiment? They make mistakes, too. Also, experimenters working with test subjects often figure out what is being tested, pretty hard to fool them. Then, what about p-values, how valid are they as indicators? What is actually proved by an experiment, anything?
 
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What artefact. You don't know what is being perceived.

Could be any artefact you can think of. You start with making it large enough for it to have a positive. This trains your listeners. Then you lower it. All normal practice. And no bias involved.

EHm,,you're wrong both 😱😡

I don't think that you're talking about pure tones, sines, cosines but the object
of the dispute should be music, simply music.
just knowing it, the brain starts with the 'only music' program, right?

So, what distinguishes a musical 'signal' ( whatever you name it- information-message-stimulus) from a non musical 'signal' ?

Starts from here

someone named PRAT...

ah ah thinking of it, I came to the conclusion that we fool ourseleves often, if not everytime

We can't distinguish more than 5-10 periods of sinusoid, to say...

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To me all this is just ample mushy talk. Why not say how to achieve the desired objectives and how to avoid the undesired side effects in explicit technical language? The psychological aspects rather belong to Dr. Phil`s entertainment show.
because grainy sound is a measure of 'quality' and any student of philosophy will be able to tell you that 'quality' like 'beauty' can not be easily defined. See my tag line.
 
It won't work, imho. Most customers don't have good ears and it is better to tell them that the product is very good by showing numbers and saying good things about the product to make them feel it is worth their money.
Ah, customers for your audio business. That's what I thought.
Only if you get positive result. And you don't get positive result in an instant.
You've never been through a double blind test, have you.
Not speaking of you, just agreeing with you that brains sometimes make up stuff that isn't there.
Yup, just like the quote below.
Like everybody being in the audio business? 😛
 
Ah, customers for your audio business. That's what I thought.
Well, you have the chance to be the victim or persecutor, sort cops n robbers
vitually..

You've never been through a double blind test, have you.
I partecipated at a contest where I brought two speakers. I must say that the mesmerizing attention of each member was...significant.

I did not win...

Yup, just like the quote below.
Uh, sorry...lost in transcription
 
because grainy sound is a measure of 'quality' and any student of philosophy will be able to tell you that 'quality' like 'beauty' can not be easily defined. See my tag line.
No, no, it means grains in the sound!
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Micro or macro - Macro I guess is the one that Johnego refers to 😕
Grains like hiss, stocastical but not depending from the program played. I mean, a system error . very subtle , probably could be called noise carpet, but granular:warped:
 
I partecipated at a contest where I brought two speakers. I must say that the mesmerizing attention of each member was...significant.

I did not win...

Most of the members at the contest were DIY enthusiasts. That explains that near state-of-trance for the whole matinèe. It was 2011. Never experienced later 😎

I did ear the delta modulation in the class D amplifier or was it just me?
I mean, it was presented as a class D and I was biased for that :nod:
But i did hear clearly the modulation, very peculiar, similar to phase effect for guitar & others

...go figure: the winner of the contest was a tube preamp!
 
Speculation isn't about making stuff up. It's speculating. But a post like "Like everybody being in the audio business?" is.

Words often have more than one possible interpretations. A rhetorical question for example looks like asking for answer but it's not. The deeper your thoughts, the more potential your words being misinterpreted because people tend to see the most basic interpretation only. If your words were 'basic' then you misunderstood Mark's response to Scott (yes, he must have talked about you). If your words (and actions) are 'basic' then it is obvious that you have poor judgement skill. You thought people don't have sharp sense to detect if someone is in the audio business while actually your sense is dull. That's if your words are 'basic'. But I don't do speculations.