"EddieM" wrote in message

Clyde Slick wrote
Stewart Pinkerton wrote
calcerise wrote:



Arny isn't too keen on actually listening to audio
products, since they should all sound the same
according to
tests.

In level-matched blind listening tests, these three
players sound identical - as any reasonable person would
expect.

Damn it, there are those pesky expectation effects again.

Good point.

There's an equal danger in missing an audible difference
because you expect it to not be there, as there is a danger
in falsely perceiving a difference because the listening
test was done naively.

So Eddie, what to do?