mlsstl wrote: > A lot of people find it tempting to denote things only as black or > white, with no possible territory in the middle. > > The "perfect" blind test will never exist, but that shouldn't keep us > from drawing conclusions regarding the cumulative weight of the somewhat > less-that-perfect tests that have been performed over the years. > > The conclusion I've drawn from everything I've seen over the years is > solid proof that we are human. Under sighted conditions (i.e., with > knowledge of the make/model we're listening to at the moment), our > comments are dramatic and full of hyperbole. > > As the knowledge-of-conditions slider moves slowly toward blindness, the > differences reported get smaller, less certain and sometimes even > disappear. > > Anyone who doesn't admit the obvious - that we are easily susceptible to > subjective factors - is whistling past the graveyard.
Agreed, but I still don't see why more emphasis wasn't placed on discussion of the test conditions from the get-go, to establish whether it could be classed as meaningful and/or to attempt to reproduce it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Willakan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56124 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
