Stewart Pinkerton wrote in message news:RJq1c.451737$I06.5070130@attbi_s01...

Until you can prove under blind conditions that you can
distinguish between the two, there is no reliance on your initially stated
preference.

No way. The burden of proof is on you. I heard these differences as
plain as could be.

I'm sure you did, and many of us have tried to explain to you exactly
how this happens. You seem determined to ignore plain explanations,
and you refuse to accept the possibility that you could be wrong, and
just try a blind test for yourself, so I for one am giving this up.

What 'explanation' is this? You simply'assert' that 'previous studies'
show that bias can affect our perception. TThat is like saying fire is
caused by excessive plgiston. It does not explain how any particular
case is affected.


Till then, I'll trust my ears and not your pronouncements.

That's exactly the problem - you refuse to *trust* your ears, you
insist on *knowing* what is connected.

I just rang up my friend who was with me listening to some of these
amps, and I asked him if he recalled hearing any difference among the
amps (he said at the time he did). He said it was 'easy'. He is not an
audiophile and does not have any high-grade audio equipment. He
confirms what I heard.