garym wrote: > I believe you. But to ignore the possible influences of external factors > in your sighted evaluation, you also ignore decades of scientific > research demonstrating the strong effect of such external factors, even > in the context of trained, expert evaluators. Why not just do the tests? > I personally choose not to ignore those potential confounding factors. > Then again, in my job I have to deal with referees and editors at > scientific journals where my tests and methods are subject to intense > scrutiny so that's just the way my mind works. (note that my own work > is entirely unrelated to audio or the engineering of audio devices so > I'm not claiming any expertise on these topics. But I do have experience > with the effect of heuristics and biases on decisions and judgments) Great but just so we can judge the efficacy & sensitivity of your "carefully controlled double blind tests" can you give us some positive results between devices that you tested?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ jkeny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35192 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles