[Trevor Wilson[_2_]]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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http://seanolive.blogspot.com/

"The performance scores of the untrained groups are scaled relative to the
mean scores of the trained listener in order to facilitate comparisons
between trained and untrained listeners. The trained listeners clearly
performed better than any of the untrained groups, by quite a large
margin. The relative performance of the untrained groups, from best to
worst, were the audio retailers (35%), the audio reviewers (20%), the
audio marketing-sales group (10%), and the college students (4%). "

IOW, compared to trained listeners @ 100%, reviewers scored 20% and audio
sales people scored 10%.

**This is just the sort of stuff I've been saying for years, after Stereo
Review published those nonsensical comparisons all those years ago. Pulling
people off the street is just dumb. The ONLY people who should be involved
in listening comparisons (blind or otherwise) are those who have carefully
trained hearing abilities.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au