jkeny wrote: > Classic responses - when home blind tests are questioned, there's > usually an attempt to shift attention to sighted tests - as if this > somehow validated the blind tests
The historical precedent for recognizing the egregious failings of sighted evaluations goes back at least to 1977 and our first ABX tests. I have to admit that at that time I didn't realize how biased the sighted evaluations that I had done for more than the first third of my life were, until I started doing blind tests. It was like lifting a veil from the listening experience. The above statement by jkeny is an obvious attempt to deflect attention from the egregious flaws of the sighted evaluations that for example jkeny uses to promote his questionable USB DACs. Just check his web site - little or nothing but testimonials from people who rely on casual sighted evaluations. Anybody who relies exclusively on really bad science like casual sighted evaluations to hawk his wares is casting grievous aspersions on his own work whether he realizes it or not. He's basically admitting that fair tests don't support his products' very existence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 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
