highdudgeon Wrote: > Other stuff: look up the well-know Bay Area Audiophile Society blind > test of power cords. Even with a sales rep present and extolling the > virtues of kilo-buck power cords, over the course of a day audiophile > listeners never really scored better than 50% in guessing the > audiophile cord over a stock IEC cord.
I've read that. I enjoy reading about folks' blind testing, particularly when it's done fairly rigorously, and the numbers are presented, p-values calculated, etc. But it was just one test; other people need to replicate the test in order to rely on them with confidence. For example, there might have been too much background noise at the test, or the speakers weren't high quality enough or whatever. (I don't recall the exact conditions of the test, I'm just throwing out examples.) So I'll remain fairly agnostic about this stuff until these sorts of tests are replicated. Unfortunately, few people do them even once... -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22000 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
