magiccarpetride wrote: > Double blind listening tests are tricky at best because they tend to > deliver a lot, and I mean a lot of false positives. There are well > documented cases where sufficiently large population of double blind > testers were reporting significant differences in the sound quality > while in reality the experimenters were merely playing an identical > configuration over and over and over. Funny how human psyche functions. > Highly unreliable.
Your arguments for describing the failures of double blind tests (if they DO consistently fail) are also arguments for being even more weary of listening tests that involve no blind testing (because you're describing how the listeners heard differences that weren't there!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3416 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
