@prof
"Oh jeeze, I don’t mean to cause you any more work Keith!"
To late... you have gone and done it now :) JK
I really don't mind. Just when I thought I had this all figured out up pops Prof.
Ok so I do plan to employ a blind fold.. check
The randomness of the swap will not be oblivious to me. I will wear some ear plugs or something during the swap.. Check
I should not say my wife has no skin in the game. We have been married for 22 years and she is often my test person for lots of stuff so she actually has a pretty good ear, and does care.
My Son is also going to do fine. Keep in mind the overall goal of the test. Which is to see if cable burn in makes any difference in SQ. We are also going to see if the cable is able to either out perform the cable I have now or at least equal it. Now in regards to the pre/post burn in test I only have one sample of a recording pre-burn-in so I am a little limited in that regard but I have some other ideas. If the cable comes up to at least the same SQ as the cable I have the compare between the two will reveal that. it will also be proof that the cable improved with burn-in. You will have to trust me on the fact that the cable sounded profoundly different (worst) than my existing cable pre-burn in. It was not even close. However I will also allow my participants to listen to that for them selves as well. No sure this will be fair because the only way to do that is to play the tape and have them compare to the actual record and that won't be fair because the record will definitely sound better, but we will see if we can make any judgment but I think that will be very subjective.
We will not communicate during the test.. Check.
Coin flip I will suggest that but I think they will come up with something on their own as well but I will keep that in mind. I want them to feel that their method makes sense to them.
So ok the ground work is laid. I think we have as good as a test method we can come up with under the circumstances. I wish you would have spoke up early in the post as i'm sure we could have come up with other ways to do the A/B, but I thought using my reel to reel was as accurate I could get to do a fair comparison.
Good stuff. So the cable is cooking now again only because its been sitting for a few days. I plan to do the comparison on Sunday. Everyone is ready to rock and roll (no pun)
remember everyone this is in no way going to be perfect. I realize that but I do think we can at least draw some real conclusions. Regardless of what happens the cable is being returned because I already know that it does not best what I currently have. Even if no one can tell the difference its "no difference" in that regard and not worth the investment to have no obvious improvement.
If anyone else has any ideas they want to throw out, this is the time to do it. After this the matter of cable burn in will be closed...for me anyway.
-Keith
"Oh jeeze, I don’t mean to cause you any more work Keith!"
To late... you have gone and done it now :) JK
I really don't mind. Just when I thought I had this all figured out up pops Prof.
Ok so I do plan to employ a blind fold.. check
The randomness of the swap will not be oblivious to me. I will wear some ear plugs or something during the swap.. Check
I should not say my wife has no skin in the game. We have been married for 22 years and she is often my test person for lots of stuff so she actually has a pretty good ear, and does care.
My Son is also going to do fine. Keep in mind the overall goal of the test. Which is to see if cable burn in makes any difference in SQ. We are also going to see if the cable is able to either out perform the cable I have now or at least equal it. Now in regards to the pre/post burn in test I only have one sample of a recording pre-burn-in so I am a little limited in that regard but I have some other ideas. If the cable comes up to at least the same SQ as the cable I have the compare between the two will reveal that. it will also be proof that the cable improved with burn-in. You will have to trust me on the fact that the cable sounded profoundly different (worst) than my existing cable pre-burn in. It was not even close. However I will also allow my participants to listen to that for them selves as well. No sure this will be fair because the only way to do that is to play the tape and have them compare to the actual record and that won't be fair because the record will definitely sound better, but we will see if we can make any judgment but I think that will be very subjective.
We will not communicate during the test.. Check.
Coin flip I will suggest that but I think they will come up with something on their own as well but I will keep that in mind. I want them to feel that their method makes sense to them.
So ok the ground work is laid. I think we have as good as a test method we can come up with under the circumstances. I wish you would have spoke up early in the post as i'm sure we could have come up with other ways to do the A/B, but I thought using my reel to reel was as accurate I could get to do a fair comparison.
Good stuff. So the cable is cooking now again only because its been sitting for a few days. I plan to do the comparison on Sunday. Everyone is ready to rock and roll (no pun)
remember everyone this is in no way going to be perfect. I realize that but I do think we can at least draw some real conclusions. Regardless of what happens the cable is being returned because I already know that it does not best what I currently have. Even if no one can tell the difference its "no difference" in that regard and not worth the investment to have no obvious improvement.
If anyone else has any ideas they want to throw out, this is the time to do it. After this the matter of cable burn in will be closed...for me anyway.
-Keith