Blindfold Speaker testing

So what? Been done decades ago. Nothing new under the sun.

The curtain will ruin the sound unfortunately. 

@mozartfan     Anyone who has plugged earphones into a system that contains a Dynaco 70 amp and thinks it is an Audio Research amp is clearly deaf.

I have, and you can modify the Dynaco 70 any way you want and I guarantee you anyone can tell the difference between it and an Audio Research product.

In fact, I did just that in 1976 with an AR Dual 51 and a Dynaco 70 and a pair of STAX headphones.  (I actually did that with every piece of gear in the shop as the the STAX, while amazingly bright and harsh, were almost as revealing as the Sennheiser's of the day, which I also listened to this way.)

It was all part of my education as a young, know-it-all dealer (HA!), which included playing my Strat and Precision and Bundy cornet and other instruments live and then listening to recordings through every piece of gear in the shop.

This took me many months and many repeats, but I finally learned what reproduced sound could be and what it was not.

Tricks like blind A-B things are just tricks.  As we proved over and over, and was supported by pretty much every "audio guru" of the time, there is really no way to do scientific A-B testing due to the differences in all the items in the circuit.  Best to just take some stuff home TO YOUR ROOM and listen there to find what YOU like IN YOUR ROOM rather than pay attention to all the advertising and "measurements."

I was a successful high-end dealer because I not only educated myself, but also enabled my clients to pick WHAT THEY LIKED rather than what I knew was more accurate.

To this day, ANYONE who does not audition an item IN THEIR ROOM may make an error in judgement that they will regret.  We all like different things or there would only be one manufacturer of each part of the music reproduction system, right?

Cheers!

What is wrong with his question?  All you need to do is blind fold the listener and remove the curtain.  This would be a great experiment.

A real waste of time. Is the room the right size for all these speakers to perform properly. Each pair of speakers will need to be set up properly. An example Klipsch K-Horns need to be in the corners. Speakers are all flawed and need special attention on how to display them. What needs to be done is to have one pair of speakers at a time properly setup and then make the evaluation. Lining them up behind a curtain side by side is a dumb idea. By the way who the hell is Richard Gray. He needs to get a life.