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Default Teflon Film Tin Foil capacitors, and Auricaps or others


"Phil"

Remember, Patrick, the A-B double blind test doesn't work in audio,



** What absolute crap !!

Such tests have been used by PROFESSIONALS in audio for many decades.

When *real* differences exist, they get picked up by listeners very quickly
in controlled A-B changeover tests.



because it fails to achieve its primary purpose, namely the "isolation of
a variable." When you switch back and forth, you test two variables, not
one, the capacitor, and the ability of the mind to remember audio
passages.



** Easily eliminated by making the A-B changeover *instant* and at the whim
of the listener.

Here is one very simply way to do it:

http://sound.westhost.com/absw.htm



The Boulder amplifier company noted in a letter to the Audio Critic ....



** ROTFL - what pathetic drivel.

Some dopey, damn letter is not scientific evidence of any kind.

Get real.



........... Phil