On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:18:28 GMT, (Mkuller) wrote:

(Michael
Scarpitti) wrote:
If anyone says 'the fact that you knew which product you were
listening to invalidates any audible evaluation you may have made' is
ludicrous.


Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
No, it's a simple fact, easily supported by experiment in the case of
subtle differences, such as among nominally competent amplifiers. Why
are you so adamant in refusing to accept simple truths?


Truth? It's your opinion stated as fact... I have never heard two amplifiers
that sound the same

That's because you always use sighted listening. QED.

- the greatest differences were between tubed and solid
state amps - competent ones - and you deny those differences exist.

I say no such thing, as you well know.

Nope, your comparison method is faulty. The odds are that some of them
did indeed sound different, but others did not.

I can demonstrate a tube amp and a SS amp which sound obviously and
vastly different to a room full of audiioophiles - and I won't
actually have to change the connections for them to 'hear' the
difference.............


So what?

So it's a good proof that sighted listening is useless for such
comparisons.

Why will you not accept the plain fact that sighted comparisons are
fatally flawed, and at least *try* it for yourself. What are you
afraid of? Will your ego not admit even the possibility of error?

Why not admit the fact that your application of the DBT *most likely* is
fatally flawed.

Because it's not a fact - and I can prove it.

Will your ego not admit even the possibility of error?

Sure it will - that's why I check my opinions by using blind testing.

Can you spell *v-a-l-i-d-a-t-i-o-n t-e-s-t*?

Sure - www.PCABX.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering