I brought this over from Amir's high-res ABX results thread as I didn't want to confound matters on that thread
I found this result interesting as the normal approach to ABX testing is a certain training/testing period where a search is done for a section in the two files that sound different to you & this is tested sighted first before doing the ABX test itself. Usually the listener is able to verbalise what (s)he was listening for.
This first result is slightly different in that the listener just did the test intuitively & wasn't sure of his choices but scored a very positive score.
He then went on to do the harder versions of the test
The post is here
I found this result interesting as the normal approach to ABX testing is a certain training/testing period where a search is done for a section in the two files that sound different to you & this is tested sighted first before doing the ABX test itself. Usually the listener is able to verbalise what (s)he was listening for.
This first result is slightly different in that the listener just did the test intuitively & wasn't sure of his choices but scored a very positive score.
He then went on to do the harder versions of the test
The post is here
Yes! I am a god of 20 pass ADDA shitty soundcard ABXing. Kneel before me and tremble mortals.
foo_abx 1.3.4 report
foobar2000 v1.3.3
2014/07/21 15:22:58
File A: C:\Users\adamd\Dropbox\ew test original\sb20x_original.wav
File B: C:\Users\adamd\Dropbox\ew test original\sb20x_pass20.wav
15:22:58 : Test started.
15:27:35 : 01/01 50.0%
15:29:20 : 02/02 25.0%
15:32:23 : 03/03 12.5%
15:39:20 : 04/04 6.3%
15:42:00 : 04/05 18.8%
15:43:46 : 05/06 10.9%
15:46:56 : 06/07 6.3%
15:47:51 : 07/08 3.5%
15:50:21 : 08/09 2.0%
17:07:51 : 09/10 1.1%
17:08:08 : Test finished.
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Total: 9/10 (1.1%)
Ok here is a weird thing. I actually felt very unconfident in my choices and yet they almost all turned out to be right. btw I set out in advance that I was just going to to 10 goes at it and no more. It might sound odd , but I think it is very important to decide in advance what the test is going to be. Otherwise one can fall into a rather subtle form of bias.
Armed with this success I am probably going to have a crack at the 5 pass test. Anyway I did this one on my work computer with bog standard soundcard and logitech speakers. I think I had better have a go at the 5 pass test with something a little more upmarket