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Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On 11 Sep 2005 01:58:22 GMT, wrote: I have no interest in blind testing. I am interested in comparing products in the same way I listen to them. Yes, we've all heard that old strawman before. Bascically, you know that you'd fail, so you trot out this old excuse. Well, heads up, there's no reason not to listen for hours, days or weeks at a time to each item, so why is it so critical that you *know* what's connected? Why do you not trust your ears alone? Just as a note, speaking of myself, I do wish to trust my ears alone, and if I lived with somebody or had a good audiophile buddy or the dealers would let me borrow equipment long term, I would have my buddy hook up everything behind a screen and do all my evaluative listening blind. I also think Stereophile/Absolute Sound reviews should be done on "black boxes" or equipment behind screens. Stewart, you often characterize this argument as though it were about listening blind versus listening sighted.. i.e., whether you know what you are hearing or whether you don't. Let me state, for the record, that this distinction isn't directly relevant to my own theories. It's not the blindness of blind tests I object to, but rather how the method of comparing sound affects sensitivity. I won't bother to restate these opinions since we have been over this ground enough times already. I expect you will say the ear is most sensitive to differences under quick-switch, and that all the available evidence supports that. Fine. Mike P.S. How often has anybody done a blind test in which they listened for days? Let's say 4 switches per trial, 2 days per switch, 20 trials: that's 160 days. Has this ever happened? Ever? |
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