Wombat;619035 Wrote: > I wonder how many claims about bettering tweaks will vanish under such > circumstances.
EVERYTHING pretty much vanishes under the double blind ABX test circumstances. That's the fact that invalidates such a clever test. You can read up on it all over the web -- people. experienced audiophiles, have reportedly never been able to pass ANY ABX tests with better than 51% batting average. Even when comparing shitty, $20 DVD players against multi thousand dollars players, or bottom line power amps with ten thousand dollars power amps, under ABX regime all the differences mysteriously melt away. In many reported cases, the test subjects would've achieved pretty much the same results had they simply chosen to toss a coin. It's a fact, try it for yourself. Take the best component you can find, pair it up with the shittiest one, and run the two components through double blind ABX. 7 times out of 15, you'll be wrong. 8 times out of 15, you'll be right. Or vice versa, same difference basically. Same goes for pretty much anybody else who'd be willing to join you in the testing exercise. That, plus, as I've mentioned, there is a huge body of already published evidence that pretty much exposes the same interesting phenomenon. Does this mean that we're just a bunch of jerks who are imagining that, upon paying lots of money, we get our money's worth? Draw the conclusions for yourself... -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86419 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
