cliveb Wrote: > It was easy to hear the difference between that Philips chipset DAC > (built in to the CD player) and the Lucid DA2496 ....until I did a > blind test. The experience made me fundamentally re-think my approach > towards evaluating audio equipment.
quick A-B blind tests are not very instructive, as they tend to make it very difficult to make out anything but the most egregious differences in sound quality. blind tests in and of themselves are fine, but they have to be done over prolonged periods (days, even weeks) so the sound of each method can adequately sink in. long-term listening can yield very different conclusions from short-term comparisons. if you rely on quick A-B testing to evaluate equipment, i think it might be difficult to achieve a high level of listening satisfaction in the long term. i review gear for an audio publication and very often i've heard stuff that wowed me in the first couple days of listening and in A-B tests, but ultimately left me unsatisfied when left in the system for the long haul. -- dorkus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dorkus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3373 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21415 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
