HT wine-tasting (was HT tests)

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:01:43 +0100


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It should be noted before going on that all this would do is establish (at best)
the preferences of the listening group in the most general of senses. It would
explain absolutely nothing relevant to why any such preferences were observable.

Getting to the real meat of all this is going to be quite a bit more involved me
thinks.

RicB


Robert Scott wrote:

>
> If, by "musical reality" you mean "which do listeners prefer", then a
> scientific test would go as follows:
>
> Solicit a pool of qualified volunteers to listen to the CDs.  Do not tell
> the listeners what the differences are between the two CDs. (i.e. don't
> mention tuning.)  Just label them #1 and #2.  The labelling should be
> randomized so that the ET and WT tunings are equally likely to be labelled
> #1 as #2.  Of course, the actual meaning of the labelling must be
> maintained on a list known only to the testers.  Just ask the listeners
> which CD they like the best.
>

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
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