Quote Originally Posted by mtrycraft
More flawed papers.

"Level Discrimination as a Function of Level for Tones from .25 to 16khz", Florentine, Mary, et al, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, 81(5) May 1987, pg 1528-1541.

"On the Relations of Intensity JND's to Loudness and Neural Noise", Zwislocki, J and Jordan H., Journal of Acoustics Society of America, 79(3), Mar 86, pg 772-780.

"Auditory Intensity Discrimination at High Frequencies in the Presence of Noise", Viemeister, Neal F., Science, vol 220, 16 Sep 83, pg 1206-1208.

"Subjective Loudness of Typical Program Material" Soulodre, Lavoie and Norcross, Convention Paper 5892, 2003 AES.
Since these studies all predate your admission that you are unaware of any studies regarding high end equipment, I gather this is simply more irrelevant data to the question I have posed to you on several occasions. Conclusions from any well run study for anything are completely valid for that which is tested. The corollary, naturally, is that they are likewise mute on that which has not been tested. You also seem to think that there have been no improvements whatsoever in the reproduction chain in the past twenty years or you would not continue to regurgitate studies from 1983. It is the unscientific part where results from one study are extrapolated to that equipment the likes of which has never been tested (according to your lack of such references).

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