Does anyone know of a blinded rank ordering of headphone quality by an expert? Headphone reviews read like wine reviews. I just want to know things like at what point the quality vs. price correlation becomes super weak, and you could easily determine that from a blind ranking.
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Given https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html … I wonder if
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Research: pretty much all commercially driven. What we know is vague and unsatisfying: 'ideal' HRTF varies dramatically between individuals, preference just as much, and people will come to like almost any headphone that's not too extreme.
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Rereading that article, I noticed: "Proving a null hypothesis is akin to proving the halting problem; you can't." No, I can: suppose you had a program that solved the halting problem. Construct a program which calls that program and does the opposite of what it says. Fail!
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Of course for "Fail!" you may substitute the usual things said at the end of a proof by contradiction. I kind of like "Fail!", though.
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You can't prove a null hypothesis, but you can keep testing it. Humans function pretty well in a world of halting problems. Most of the time anyway.
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Oh, agreed about null hypotheses, just saying that the halting problem is the wrong example to use, since the impossibility of solving that actually is rigorously provable, and in fact that's how we know it. A better example might be the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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The halting problem, by the way, is: construct a program that will examine any other program and say whether or not it halts. The closest practical thing is writing an optimizing compiler, and that can always fall back on "just do it the way the programmer says".
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