"Ethan Winer" ethanw at ethanwiner dot com wrote in
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and I explain it here in detail:
http://www.ethanwiner.com/believe.html
It explains some audiophile beliefs, no doubt.
Another explanation is that the audio product comparison methodologies that
audio dealers and audiophiles generally use randomize their results on many
grounds, including the one suggested by the article.
Audiophiles seem to obsess on their perceptions of any differences at all,
and tend to perceive any difference as being an improvement. Their abhorance
of formal tone controls and their infatuation with implicit tone controls
that can only be changed by swapping equipment, seems like a big clue to
their true motivations.