[gmpi] [OT] listening tests (Was: Where are we?: 7.1.2/Untangling issues)

>structure and in listening tests that has a real impact on the sound (the 64
>bit implementation is smoother and other weird subjective kind of words). So

do you use double-blind testing techniques for your listening tests? i
have almost never seen them used by the audio industry, which instead
seems to prefer so-called "A/B comparisons". no other testing domains
that i am familiar with dares to use this technique, since it has been
shown over and over again to suffer from fatal bias. i would be
impressed if you do in fact use it, but you'd be the first audio
software or hardware company i've come across that claimed to do
so. even food tasting uses at least single-blind these days, and often
double blind. ditto for cosmetics, smell, color, and fabric texture.

all this is notwithstanding steve's comment about wiring with Float64
versus internal math with Float64.

--p "ok ladies and mostly gentlemen, that last one was the $100
     shareware application and this is a $30,000 ProTools HD system.
     which do you think sounds better? did I mention our sponsor
     for today's listening test?"
  

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