Thursday 23 February 2012

Hifi Miscellany

Testing Sites

Tom Nousaine's test site

http://www.nousaine.com/nousaine_tech_articles.html

Ethan Winer's test site

 http://www.ethanwiner.com/index.htm


NwAvGuy's test site/blog

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/


The Audio Critic, critical writing and testing of hifi

http://www.theaudiocritic.com/

General bibliography of hifi testing

http://www.geocities.ws/jonrisch/c4.htm


Audibility

Audiocheck, check out your hearing and see what really is audible

http://www.audiocheck.net//

What can we hear?

http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/EARS.htm#Subjective_vs_objective

Listening test of distortion

http://www.klippel.de/listeningtest/lt/


Jitter

http://aoselectronics.com/jitter_article.html

Testing of audibility of distortion caused by jitter

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/26/1/50/_pdf

The Audio Critic on jitter

http://www.theaudiocritic.com/back_issues/The_Audio_Critic_21_r.pdf

BBC Report on jitter

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1974-11.pdf

TNT audio on what is jitter?

http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/jitter1_e.html

Hydrogen Audio forum and a thread about the audibility og jitter

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=51322&st=25


Benchmark Audio and their claims about jitter

http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/appnotes-d/jittercu

Stereophile and their claims about jitter

http://www.stereophile.com/reference/1093jitter/#



Testing of claims about cables

St Andrews Uni, testing skin effect

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/audio/skineffect/page1.html


HDMI

C-net on there being no difference between HDMI cables

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20056502-1/why-all-hdmi-cables-are-the-same/

Test of HDMI cables

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/home-entertainment/1282699/hdmi-investigated-are-expensive-cables-a-scam/3

Another test with video games

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-hdmi

One with lots of cables

http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/long-hdmi-cable-bench-tests/hdmi-cable-testing-results


ABX testing

http://www.hopkins-research.com/abx.htm


Tests of cables

http://sfguitarworks.com/?p=1521


Spurious cable compnay claims

Atlas on directionality  http://www.atlascables.com/fine-tuning.html

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