Blind fold hearing test

geoffkait,

One sense we don’t have is to stay out of threads that have no real porpoise 🐬

True, but the ones that serve a real purpose end up going sideways so we have to pick and choose.

All the best,
Nonoise

Thanks for all your responses. Didn’t mean to make it sound like a non sense thread. I just thought it sounds interesting. Just thought some of us that have been into high end systems for years and years and maybe all their lives could tell what was being used. Maybe it would of made more sense to say could u hear the difference of a tube amp or a ss amp and a tube pre or a ss pre. 

Not a non sense thread at all. Just a bit of snark from us usual culprits. 

@nonoise Thanks. 👌👍

Perhaps we audiophiles are not seeing the wood for the trees.

Perhaps most of the so-called huge, night and day differences in performance we often read about are in fact barely perceptible?

I recall being struck by the sheer honesty when I heard that McIntosh themselves claimed no sonic advantages of any of their lovely amplifiers.

Anyway, as I’ve just ordered a copy of West Side Story CD (1957 original Broadway cast) it will be interesting to discover just how much better this Sony Mastersound SBM version is than the stock issue. I do think it’s telling that one of popular music’s most dynamic recordings was done over 60 years ago!

As is the fact that another highly regarded audiophile album, (the Cowboy Junkies much feted Trinity Session) was recorded on a Sony Betamax SL-2000 video cassette deck, albeit with a super duper microphone.