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    Listening Tests and how length of time spent listening alters perception ex.

    The intent of this thread is to show that people do get fooled by their subjective biases time and time again unaware of the effects of their biases at play. Exactly. What superhero would you most want to be? Me, Placeboman. He hasn't got any superpowers, but it doesn't matter because...
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    Secondary TV audio for clear dialogue

    I designed classrooms and lecture halls for many years (and many ears), where it's all about intelligibility. In short, this is what I found, as it applies to living rooms and home theater: (1) headphones are best because they exclude all interference - comb filtering between multiple...
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    Listening Tests and how length of time spent listening alters perception ex.

    LOL, I totally agree about Wishful Thinking. Might we include her twin sister, Magical Thinking, who cannot tell fact from fiction? And also their brother Cognitive Dissonance (actual term of art from Psychology for discomfort with new, conflicting ideas)? Having made his decision, he plugs...
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    Listening Tests and how length of time spent listening alters perception ex.

    I remain skeptical of people who can always tell the difference but only if they already know which is which. As students in an Experimental Psychology class in the late 60's, we were given an assignment to test the effect of expectation and social influence on perception (aka "set"). Our...
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    "Import sweep recording" gives error "Data missing" even when generated by same REW version (Mac 10.12.6, REW 5.19b8 and REW 5.20)

    Steps: sig gen: save WAV file (L 16b 48K) File: Import sweep recordings Select either file saved in step 1 OR recorded WAV file (L 16b 48K) Select L channel "Data missing" error message pointing to mismatch with REW version used to save the file I used 5.20, then found post saying use 5.19 for...
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