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Blind Testing: A Technology Walkthrough

Posted by Agent Kith on Aug 04 2018 in Snakeoil

T’was more than a year ago when Golden Ears is released. Work on Blind Testing begun on the 8th of Aug, 2017.

Blind Testing: A Technology Walkthrough

Here are some rough stats as of 22nd July 2018.

Project Changes
Web App 2962 files changed, 138921 insertions(+), 14490 deletions(-)
REST 106 files changed, 5679 insertions(+), 3040 deletions(-)

Today the Snakeoil Squad released Blind Testing. So what’s new in this release, now that we have an extra year of Angular experience under the belt?

There are a total of 63 issues in the Blind Testing road map, of which 31 are new features with the rest (32) bug fixes. You can look at the full list of changes here in the change log.

This is a short post highlighting some of the more exciting new changes in this release, plus the development tools  and technologies that powers it.

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Another Milestone: Snakeoil Web Migrated To VPS

Posted by Agent Kith on Jun 28 2018 in Snakeoil
Another Milestone: Snakeoil Web Migrated To VPS

Today mark another milestone in the Snakeoil project. The Snakeoil Squad have moved all the web contents (blog, forums, bugtracker, demo, updates, etc) from a shared web hoesting server to a VPS.

This is a humble VPS:

  1. Duo Core 3.5 GHz CPU
  2. 40 GB SSD
  3. 2 GB RAM
  4. Dedicated IP
  5. 100 MB up and down

While humble, it’s still heaps better than the shared hosting I had before. Already I can feel the improvement in speed. This upgrade paved the way for growth and expansion for Snakeoil. Big thank you for the people who have donated their time and money on this project. All this wouldn’t happen without you guys!

'Experts' Doing More Harm Than Good

Posted by Agent Kith on Jun 03 2018 in Under The Sun
'Experts' Doing More Harm Than Good

Here’s an interesting article that turned up in my inbox a few weeks back. Excerpts follow:

“It was no surprise, then, that in 1983, the magazine jumped at the opportunity to conduct a double-blind listening test, which editor-in-chief Bill Livingston and his colleagues hoped would reveal, scientifically, that high-end cables were indeed a hoax and provided no higher performance than the everyday lamp cord in common use at the time.”

“The resulting article created a firestorm. As you’ll read, the panel identified, to a statistically significant degree, the 24-gauge from the other two contenders with pink noise as the source. More critically, they also identified, again with statistical significance, the Monster Cable from the 16-gauge with pink noise. But the latter results didn’t hold when choral music was used, and none of the Monster versus 16-gauge results passed the higher threshold of a 75 percent or greater detection rate said to be psychoacoustically significant.”

“SR’s editors, however, rewrote the ending to create something akin to a blanket condemnation of the category and pressured Greenhill to accept the changes, a decision he later regretted.”

“Today, 35 years later, the debate over audiophile cables remains as active as ever.".

In other words. Folks have heard a difference between speaker cables. The article way back in 1983 should have settled this there and then. But something got into the way of the truth. You can read the Sound & Vision article in full here, and here is the article “The Horse’s Mouth” mentioned in the S&V article.

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