[Walt]

bob wrote:
On Nov 29, 10:39 pm, Steven Sullivan wrote:
bob wrote:

"As far as the real world is concerned, high-end audio lost its
credibility during the 1980s, when it flatly refused to submit to the
kind of basic honesty controls (double-blind testing, for example)
that had legitimized every other serious scientific endeavor since
Pascal."

Bravo J Gordon.

In context, he seems to be talking about blind side-by-side speaker
comparisons. Not necessarily ABX tests of amps.

While he cites Loudspeaker shootouts as a good example of DBT working, I
don't read anything in his comments restricting DBT to speakers. The
way I read it is that *everything* should be subject to DBT for the
reason of "basic honesty".

As long as the industry continues to reject basic scientific methods of
validation, it will (and should) be held up for ridicule.

//Walt