Blindfold Speaker testing

Blindfold testing is not a good way of testing. You need set up a room with a transparent screen with appropriate lighting so you can’t see the speaker behind it. Take your recordings of say piano, human voice, drums etc and pick the most accurate for lows mids and highs and I doubt you will find a complete speaker. Always compromises.

If you go into a room with something covering your eyes the brain reacts differently so in turn affects your mood and hearing.

Also, I don’t like blind tests. Best to set up gear like say if you want to test for cable differences you ask the subject how you like your music ( with say Nordost Odin). Listen as long as you want. Ask the person to leave and have a quick drink of of water outside where your accomplice switches out the cable (that you can’t see) to Belden. Later come back in and listen to same music selection again to see if the person says anything. If they say sounds great then little to no differences. But if they say doesn’t sound the same something is not quite right then you have your answer. Don’t buy into BS you have to do quick switching. For example if you are trained in playing piano and if it’s off key or tempo, timbre is off or something is different you will spot it like that. That’s why when auditioning you bring your own music. And if you can’t hear anything different then the $10k interconnect has little to no difference. Enjoy ☺️

That’s why when auditioning you bring your own music. And if you can’t hear anything different then the $10k interconnect has little to no difference. Enjoy ☺️


Yes agree, 
The olds of old, going to a show room all set perfectly, with the best sounding test cds, 
Blew us all away,,**yeah I'll  take a pair***
later on,,,hummm, lol,,,not really sure i like these speakers,,,hummm,,,lol
What we all should have done, was to bring our own speakers and shootout with the dealers speakers..
This way we can compare how the the promo speaker really sounds, 
HYped, pumped up,,, we will hear  more clearly.
I am wide band fan. . Can;t be any other speaker. 
For me, wide band sound is *thinking outside the box*
*Opening the cages and letting the doves fly free*

huh?  Six pairs of speakers with different distances from each other and from the rear and side walls, all muted by a curtain.  I can't wait?

The idea of a true blind test is just a hypothetical; it is not something that could be implemented for gleaning any meaningful information.  Just on speaker setup alone, it takes MANY hours just to set up one pair of speakers, and movement of just an inch or two can result in major changes in sound (if one is moving into or out of a node).  There really can be only one pair sitting in an "ideal" spot.  Also,  speakers interact with each other so that the sound of one pair in a room is quite different from that with many other pairs in the room.  There are a host of other issues that make this sort of comparison problematic.  

Since you believe that one can make comparisons by viewing youtube videos, why don't you do videos (dark of course, so their is no image) with each speaker set up ideally in the same room?  That way each viewer can spend as much time on each blind video as the listener want to hear and the listener can make a choice when comfortable with his or her judgment.  You can then compile the results of preferences.  That way we will have some sort of valid information--which speaker sounds best when heard as a crappy youtube video.  

All I am trying to get across is the idea
High sens wide band 
sound completely, totally different voicing 
vs
xover designs.
Thats all I am saying here.
Line up 10 xover and 1 wide band. 
Anyone with even a  moderate sensibility to  audiophile  quality spaekers, will be able to detect which of the 1  speakes is the wide band/high sensitivity. 
That is my point. 
I am not at all saying the 10 xover designs are not audiophile quality, just saying the voicing is completely different in the midrange, 1500khz - 6k hz