"Mkuller" wrote in message
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How about if the DBT panel was made up of *average audiophiles* like
those
used in the comparisons between audio components to prove there are no
differences - where the results are always null?
Regards,
Mike

It has long been my working assumption that the function of audiophilia was
to serve one's love for music. One begins with a love for music and the
desire to be surrounded by it, and then begins the search for the
reproduction equipment that can best serve that desire. Perhaps I'm
mistaken in attributing my own audiofile motives to the majority of "average
audiophiles", but I think not. Thus, I think you greatly underestimate the
ability of those same "average audiophiles" to distinguish between musical
performances under blind conditions. Any audiophile who can't perform such
a test would be well advised to spend their next several hundred
audio-earmarked dollars on music and not on equipment.