pabelson
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| Reviews with all double blind testing? Yes, beauty can grow on you. But notice that it's not the lady who's changing. It's you. What does that tell us about long-term comparisons?TBG: Yes, there are far too few objectivists to make a market. That's why the largest-selling magazine in t... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Not arguing reviewers are perfect either...far from it...they are inherently subjective and bound by their own experiences and equip as we all are...but at least he or she can frame their observations in context which allows me as a potential buye... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? It is a well structured experiment that differs greatly from what we normally hear and how we hear it.This is just an astounding statement. How in the world can simply not telling someone what they are listening to affect what they *hear*? I'll gr... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Greg: Your generally thoughtful and balanced letter was, in my opinion, a little too balanced. Here's where you went astray:The proponents of dbt...want to engage in very short tests conducted by the uninitiated. Most proponents of dbt use it to t... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? My evidence for what? That illusion is a false reality? You need evidence for that? Look in a dictionary. | |
| a great take on big$ cables Serus: Boomboxes have their own speakers. That's why they'll always sound different from everything else (including each other).Now, if you imagine hooking the box's electronics to a pair of good loudspeakers, that's a different question. Will it ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? No, TBG, the illusion is the false reality. Kinda by definition. | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? I am afraid your argument that DBT proves humans cannot hear the minor differences runs counter to most people's experiences.Granted, but why should we assume that the scientists are all wrong and people's observations are right? Surely you know t... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Serus: Go talk to your friend again. You didn't understand what he was telling you. When things sound the same, subjects are indeed just guessing. When they don't, they aren't, and they get statistically significant positive results. I posted a wh... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Qualia: It reminds me of a trick John Dunlavy used to play on visitors to his speaker factory. He would show them an expensive cable (maybe even his own!) and zipcord, and let them audition both. They'd rave about the pricey one, of course. What h... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? "If you can distinguish two amps with flat frequency response and low distortion in a blind test, you will be the first." This means one of two things: there is no differences among amps or DBTesting does not allow humans to judge the differences.... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Sean T.: If you believe in DBTs, then you have to believe in the results of DBTs. Some years ago (I can get details if you want), Tom Nousaine delivered a paper at an AES conference in which he sumarized the results of about two dozen published DB... | |
| a great take on big$ cables My claim is very simple. Since the method proposed (i.e. DBT) is worthless (and there is lots of scientific data that says that is true) for determining audible differencesThere is not a shred of "scientific" evidence that says any such thing. If ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? [W]hat components do you think match up well against really really expensive ones?That is a loaded question. I know a guy who wanted to find the cheapest CD player that sounded identical to the highly touted Rega Planet. He went to a bunch of disc... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Steve: I wouldn't be quite so dogmatic about the lack of differences, for one reason: Many audiophiles don't level-match when they do comparisons. So there really are differences to hear in that case. Of course, a difference you can erase with a s... |