Here I have a zip file containing audio files in flac format. The download is about 110mb. ( 3 mirrors ) https://mega.co.nz/#!WVRnTbaR!IEf8_Gdco3QEu347HmowJ0uEy9cQFeQ0TcSleiF6wlM https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzsnL20-4a37ZklMbkxydklPRnM/edit?usp=sharing http://www.mediafire.com/download/35s2xbs8421bx2n/SegaGenesisBlindTest.zip They are songs recorded directly from two different Sega genesis consoles. There are 5 songs each recorded twice, for a total of 10 files. Each version of the song has the suffix A or B, which was assigned randomly and doesn't mean anything. The date of all files was also reset so you cannot know in what order they have been recorded. The goal is to listen to each files and state your opinion on which one of each pairs sounds better, or what your favourite is. If you cannot hear any difference or don't have an opinion just say 'no opinion', this is still a valid response to this test. Alternatively you could also have opinion on only one pair but not the others. When you respond, just make a short list of your 5 favorite picks. Something like this for example: IMPORTANT! Respond by PM to me!! Plz do not respond in the thread!!! Your responses might influence others!! I am trying to keep this as scientific as possible. Please use PM. I will publish the results and explain what each file was when I have enough responses to have a statistically valid sample. This will be posted in more than one place, to get more participants. Thanks in advance!
Cool man. I'm downloading the file now. Just bought a very high quality sound card too for the PC so this will be just right. EDIT - PM sent
EDIT - please PM your results. I'll PM them for you. Don't type them here as MaxWar has requested. My Responses: ******************************************* I am probably hearing a placebo effect for some of them. But many of them I know I am not.
Please dont post your responses and analysis in the thread, so as not to influence others! PM please. Can you please edit it out or a mod do it? You can go public with your opinion once the initial data collection is done. Please I even wrote that in the rules in big red bold letters
Jesus lol...how do some people do stuff...big bold red letters and still messed up. I'll download it in a bit and PM you
The reason I did not explain exactly what it was to begin with is that I did not want to spark discussion and have people go on and chat and theorize about all this stuff before I had the blind test results. Basically I wanted to avoid making a useless mess out of this. I figured people that were interested in the idea of doing a blind test would just do it because its kind of fun to do. And then once it is completed all the details are revealed and it becomes interesting. I will tell you though, that it is more than merely comparing different motherboards, the consoles are modified. Btw I wonder why you think it is futile to compare different genesis motherboards? I disagree with that, they do have some very interesting differences between them. 15 people have made the test so far. Lets go to 20!
23 people participated so far, I will publish all the details Saturday around 19:00 ( GMT-5 ) For those would still like to do the test, you have less than 36 hours to do so
Thank you for you input! You are the lucky 30th participant! This makes this study appear more serious and professional since there are 30 respondents instead of 29 Here it is guys Lets transfer the activities to the new thread : http://www.assemblergames.com/forum...-YM3438-Sega-Genesis-music-blind-test-results
True this, I actually made another audio comparison experiment to explore this aspect. If you are interested in this specific test I made, the results are Here I got curious about how well the capacitors had aged On my Model 1 va3 and made a comparative audio test about it. Interestingly enough I did not find any significant audio differences between "before" and "after" recap on this particular machine, but I have not doubt that on some consoles it would be different. After all I have needed to recap My Duo-R and my X68k because of audio issues, but never a genesis so far. Also, component aging does not apply in the blind test I just made here, Thankfully. Both chips used the very same amplification/filtering PCB with new components only.
