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

From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 12/16/2004 6:29 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message

Stereophile to a DBT contest.
From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 12/16/2004 3:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"Schizoid Man" wrote in message

"S888Wheel" wrote in message

I'm not suggesting that you or anyone else do so. I am speaking of
instances when the listener is convinced via a DBT that there is no
real difference. Do you think the previously perceived difference
comes back with sighted comparisons or stays away?

I think the difference would stay away. I really subscribe to school
of thought that sighted listening is more a more engaging
experience, therefore rendering DBTs invalid and useless.

I subscribe to the school of thought that some audiophiles are so
obsessive about hearing differences, that they will sit around for
years making up futile excuses for the fact that their perceptions
in sighted listening tests are authoritative.

This isn't about your prejudices about audiophiles.

Scott, can you prove that my comment is anything but a correct critical
insight to the minds of some audiophiles that I have had experience with
over the years?

Your assertion your burden of proof. Go ahead, prove it.

Besides, many ABX tests have been sighted - the listeners could look
at the equipment that was playing as long and hard and close as they
wanted to. It's just that there was some other equipment in the room that
coulda-maybe been playing instead.

One would think even you know what is meant by blind in a DBT.

Why?

Because your life revolves around it?

Scott, do you have a problem with the idea that the essence of a DBT is
concealing the identity of the unit under test that is playing at the
instant?

No. But why ask? What does it have to do with your goofy claim that "many ABX
tests have been sighted?"