On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 13:15 -0700, Andrew L.Weekes wrote: > In the interests of science, would you do another test comparing your CD > player (assuming you have one) to the SB2 in a blind test.
The current issue of Stereophile, August 2005 has an editorial on page 3 that talks about how bad, useless and harmful blind tests are. Their website does not yet have the August issue. The do have a 15+ year old article http://www.stereophile.com/features/113/ on "Blind Listening" This is a probably a followup of the July 2005 issue, where the editor wrote in his As We See It section: "Fresh back from the "Great Debate" at HE2005, John Atkinson ponders the problems of "scientific" listening tests." In the old article, it says: " But when you have taken part in a number of these blind tests and experienced how two amplifiers you know from personal experience to sound extremely different can still fail to be identified under blind conditions, then perhaps an alternative hypothesis is called for: that the very procedure of a blind listening test can <i>conceal</i> small but real subjective differences. Having taken part in quite a number of such blind tests, I have become convinced of the truth in this hypothesis." -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
