On 2006-01-16, Forwarder wrote:
Don Pearce wrote:
Fine as an experiment

Dismissed! Ne-ext!

- but nothing whatever to do with the situation
I have sought to address,

What is the situation you are seeking to adress? An audiophool is
claiming to hear this or that sound from a cable.. - "it" is deluded -
the proof of which is this test .. ??

The tests are both OK for their own purposes. However Forwarder's
test determines a sighted majority preference; while Don's determines
an individual ability to detect a difference. These are completely
different matters and not at all equivalent, so you can't substitute
one test for the other and expect the same answer.

If Don and Forwarder place different personal values on the two different
answers that's OK but they are certainly different. The issue of the
personal value of the answer to a test seems to be at the centre of
this "discussion" but it seems to be conducted through argument about
other issues.

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John Phillips