Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ?

“I am naive to think that all people can train their ears in acoustics ...Some are ideologically deaf and need double blind test to say anything ...”

I think you are being a bit rough on Mike here. No amount of training can change the human thresholds of audibility. Mike wasn’t able to tell the difference between his turntable and a digital copy because there were no audible differences

“Now mocking someone about an allegedfailed blind test is the last argument it seems ...😁”

Reminding someone of their own experience with controlled listening tests is not mocking them. Mike made the unwise choice to make this about status and ego . There is nothing “alleged” about this particular test. It is well documented on Audio Asylum. Including Mike’s concession that he could not distinguish between his turntable and a digital copy. Again no shame in not hearing what is not audible.

“I hate ad hominem attacks on credibility ... With or without blind test ...”

so do I. Mike should know better than to just label people and dismiss them based on the label he gave them. 

The aural memory and the attention focus are heavily contextual dependant ...

Out of my own acoustic created environment i know for sure that i am more prone to be confused ...Even stress modify the results ..

It is why blind test has a meaning statistically but not so much in an artificial setting in an individual case ... And observe that the room acoustic of someone is not the acoustic theater where the test is done doubly blinded ruled by other people .. And our acoustic perception are acoustic dependent by a trained habit somewhere where there is our familiar specific acoustics conditions ... The ears must not be uproot from his familiar life milieu and acoustic context ...

Evaluating the emotion behind a new spoken language , a new acoustic is impossible because of that... We do it easily trained in our own speech ..

I am sure i could fail to pass some blind test in a new acoustic  environtment  i had pass in my environment where all is familiar, under my control because i designed it ...I am sure of that ...

Anyway i know nothing about this Mike blindtest on Asylum and i am not interested by double blind test anyway ... The only blind test that interested me are those i did in my environment ,simply blind, and in a relaxed mode not as a debunking tool but as a tool to improve my optimization process one step at a time and it worked well ...

I am not against blind test, i am against the way some people use them for an ideological goal ...

Including Mike’s concession that he could not distinguish between his turntable and a digital copy.

oy vay

this was a decent thread... until...