For Your Edification and Enjoyment re "Burn In", etc.

Ya know Douglas, I kind of figured it would go that way.. Ya can’t do something 10% and expect 100% results. I’d say the conversation is over X two.

Null testing is as OLD as the people that use it . It is not a tool people use in critical listening. It is a tool developed for just that null testing..

https://incompliancemag.com/article/null-experiments-while-measuring-signals/

I love when sound Evangelicals lock horns with Engineers. It’s just fun.

I’m not an engineer, BUT I’ve worked with quite a few. NEVER on sound, "Sound Walls", maybe. Null testing is done all the time on pre made cables used in heavy construction. 30-150K (300 pigtails). They can’t have problems with outside, RFI, EFI. or onboard issues. Besides Germans are picky.. At least the ones I worked with for years.. SLOW as hell but smart..

You’ll think NULL test when you drill through a plate of iron pyrite 15 feet thick. All your test equipment goes NUTS. Hit a magnetic plate, with a conductive drill string. NULL TESTING.. LOL Nothing on the machine test the same again... Computers shut down, WON’T reboot. Have to demag the machine and change some parts.. Anything with diodes or transistors quits working. Not often, BUT stuff happens..

Do this, open the hood of your car and wet your hands, run your hands down the spark plug wires.. LOL Go ahead... Please video.. We will all enjoy.. Null testing.. Ethan Winer, mercy HE’S DEAF....
Wires leak, 500.00 spark plug wires LEAKS, you can't null test that... BUT I can change the environment to make  a cable more conducive to LET that happen... Moisture on my hands, or in the air..

Again do this, hook one cable to the left side, turn the system to mono (older equipment has this feature) and leave the old cable on the right. It's gonna be an eye opener to a lot of folks. Switch left to right in MONO, play through BOTH. Let them play for one week.. HOOK up the right side. Can you hear a difference? Maybe not..
I CAN..

(I don’t) Douglas is starting a "CLASS" of his own. Tough at the top, lonely too.. An army of ONE. LOL (Lots of Luck) "Eeyore Redux, Army of One".

Your too nice Master mahgister. :-)

If your quoting Groucho I’m quoting Confucius.
"Man who eat jelly bean Fart in Technicolor" :-)

Respect.. That is what it means to me.....A.F. rip

Your too nice Master mahgister. :-)

Thanks but you are a gentleman and i only tried to be a little bit like you are with me and others... You observation about organ pipes was spot on thanks....

Your Confucius is more humorous than my Groucho tough, and i am afraid of competition now....😊

My best to you....

May the Technicolor fart be deemed to be lightning: it’ll add to the amazement about the origin! (scientific, that)

"Man who turn sideways going through airport turnstile going to Bagkok"

"Man with whole in pocket feel c*cky all day"

Just the ones I can remember

If you call a blind test fruitless, you have just basically stated that your opinion is worthless.

Do you think Helmholtz ever needed an equalizer in his times to set his music room right?
A clue: no more than the Wright brothers needed a boeing 747 to prove flight....

Do you think he ever needed a blind test to prove his room is acoustically well set?
A clue: no more than Faraday, devising experiments for the coming Maxwell, needed blind test....

If you think so in spite of common sense and history of science, you are doubly wrong, it is called acoustic and it is also an empirical science even today....

Then apply to yourself this sentence you wrote for others....

You may want to think on that one a bit more before saying it again.

Have you read the japanese acoustic article yet?

I cannot wait to communicate to you how an "idiotic audiophile" like me read a research paper with an experiment of his own on the "imaging" concept you seems to know like the "timbre" concept .... A clue: it is acoustic not material or electronic engineering....

With this experiment i just created my last control device for the acoustical working embedding dimension ... Cost: peanuts....Effect on S.Q. : Huge, that is to say, more than audible if you want, transformative....

But you can call that a stupid "tweak" and speaking of placebo effect .... But it is a pure application of Helmholtz science, nothing less, nothing more.... Thanks to the Japanese article for the inspiration....