(Mkuller) wrote:
Many more highly regarded audio manufacturers do NOT use DBTs so
I guess that proves they are not useful.

This is a patently absurd assertion, it simply does not follow.
That a manufacturer does NOT use a tool does NOT in ANY way
prove it is not useful.

Dick,
Since you snipped the rest of this message, perhaps you missed the
tongue-in-cheek irony.

If Pinkerton asserts the test is *valid* only because a few manufacturers use
it, then it would follow, using the same logic, that if many more manufacturers
do not use it - it must not be very good. Get it?

Certainly DBTs are an appropriate and useful tool for some things, however I
have seen no validation that they are able to show subtle differences between
audio components compared in open-ended tests.
Regards,
Mike