Welcome
Today life is easy. If you have a question, Google provides the answer.
In fact many answers, you only have to pick the right one.
I started with computer based audio in 2007 and entered the world of tagging, ripping, audio formats, media players, etc. A fascinating world but it take some time to find your way.
This website is about what I learned so far.
I try to talk facts but anybody familiar with human perception knows that perception is a fact to.
Everything matters, don't forget to tweak your placebos!
“Audio as a hobby is dying, largely by its own hand. As far as the real world is concerned, high-end audio lost its credibility during the 1980s, when it flatly refused to submit to the kind of basic honesty controls (double-blind testing, for example) that had legitimized every other serious scientific endeavor since Pascal. [This refusal] is a source of endless derisive amusement among rational people and of perpetual embarrassment for me..”
Where there's mystery there's margin.
a salesman
Many people seek advice and they choose who will give it to them. A person chooses an advisor who will give them the answers and advice that they want to hear.
Jean Paul Sartre
What we belief, we will hear. What we don’t believe, we won’t hear. That’s the difference between an audiophile and a sceptic.
Roseval
If an ABX test shows a statistically significant difference then you can reasonably conclude that there is a difference. Unfortunately, a likely outcome will be that the test will not show a statistically significant difference. In that event it would be improper to conclude that there is no difference. You will be back where you started.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Tony Lauck