darrenyeats wrote: > The interesting thing IME is when you have a blind test and sighted test > where everything else is the same...same tracks, system, loudness, A/B > switching, snippet length etc and yet the impressions feel so different > when listening blind. I think this is something that has to be > experienced (I found it humbling) to be understood. > > "X blows away Y, it takes five seconds to hear it". When you listen > blind you can't tell them apart...so the argument shifts to "long-term > impressions are important and not amenable to blind testing". An > argument which sounds plausible on its own but obviously it looks > desperate considered next to the initial position. > Darren
The disturbing aspect of what you've described above is when it gets impossible to detect even the most extreme differences while in the blind testing position. Differences such as swapping CD players, amplifiers, heck, even speakers. Sometimes it even looks as if blindfolding the testers makes them completely clueless, so that they don't know which way is up and then resort to issuing random statements just so that they could get to the end of the bloody job. This is why blind tests are of little value, overall -- they just create a lot of stress and trepidation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94418 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
