I personally don't have any issue over the blind bit. The problem is that proper blind testing over a reasonable period (days rather than minutes) is difficult to do. My view is that the danger of making a biased decision is probably less than the danger of making a wrong decsion based on too short a listen*, but then it's my job as an R&D engineer to be as unbiased as possible (and I lean toward skepticism anyway).
* It's often quite easy to hear a difference in a quick A/B, but it's not necessarily as easy to say which is better. It's sometimes very difficult to hear a difference in a quick A/B, but over a longer period of listening you 'tune-in' to something being better or worse (IME). -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22273 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
