garym;684706 Wrote: > You raise a very good question, and a difficult one to answer (a good > answer to this question could end all this discussion!). Some things > are hard to validate. But many things discussed on this forum are EASY > to test with a simple blind comparison. e.g., Tell me how many times > you could identify which CABLE was being used in the system out of N > trials. 90% of the time? 50/50 (guessing). Or simply report that I > like Cable X better in my system. If you report that Cable X gave much > better quality audio than Cable Y, then you should be willing to report > a simple blind test result. > > edit: and before anyone jumps in on this, blind tests don't have to > take place in the format of listening to snippits of music over very > short period. A test could be over days, weeks, months, etc.
Of course, there are the obvious questions as to the honesty of the individual, who's monitoring the results, etc...., but I can see that this would be a place to start should one want to, at least for some period of time, give oneself an initial bit of "street cred". -- rgro Rg System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Vortexbox > Touch (wired) via optical > Rega DAC > LFD LE IV Signature amp > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305 sub. Home Theatre: Duet/SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.7.1 r33751 on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 2.0. Touch w/Hardware V.5. Touch: FW 7.7.1 r9558. Duet: FW 7.7.1 r9557. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
