AudioBanter.com - View Single Post - RAHE challenges Stereophile to a DBT contest.

From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 12/15/2004 12:29 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message

I think what would really interesting is if the illusion of improved
sound returns after a DBT shows absolutely no difference to the point
that the testee is quite convinced the difference lies completely in
one's head.

It can. Been there, done that.

Don't you think this is kind of significant? Seems to go beyond the typical
placebo eefect for one thing. Seems to me the implications are pretty
important.

Sighted listening can be quite compelling.

Then why deny it? It is after all the way just about everyone actually listens
for pleasure. Think about that and how it relates to the fact that the effect
of the sighted bias can return to one even if they are convinced that it isn't
a real sonic difference.