[vorbis] OT: Perfect Pitch

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Moz wrote:

 > One other note on HiFi: Sturgeons Law applies with bells on.
 > On the one hand people pay $40 for a green permanent
 > marker to make their CDs sound better (really!), but
 > contrawise many of them believe that vinyl records sound
 > better.

Green markers aren't the nadir of the audiophile pseudo-science 
scene.  Check out this huckster (he hasn't lured any stupids yet, thankfully):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1341096837

 > Very rarely in HiFi do you see double blind tests or any attempt
 > at reasonable comparisons, and the manufacturers
 > are active in suppressing same. So even if ogg is technically
 > superior, I'm not sure how you'd sell that to audiophiles.

Sound and Vision has actually done a couple of blind comparisons of codecs, 
but publications like Stereophile never do.  If you want to see an exercise 
in futility, hop on over to rec.audio.high-end, where world class 
researchers like James Johnston and John Feng regularly fail to convince 
people that sighted listening tests are a flawed way to test for subtle 
differences in audio components.

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