>> Hi Sean, there's a good reason why any mention of double-blind testing is banned on some audiophile forums: any time someone does something they believe improves or degrades their sound, someone else can claim it's invalid because DBT has not been performed.
OK, so do you want to know WHY you hear it, or not? Do you expect me, as the designer, when asked, to speculate about some esoteric electromagnetic phenomenon that _might_ be responsible, or do you want my honest opinion? >> DBT can be very time consuming and requires two people to do, therefore many discussions of differences in sound could be dismissed because it hasn't been done. Yes a second person is needed, but in this case the test is trivially easy to do because it's just a setting that needs to be flipped. >> Furthermore, sometimes one has to live with a given change for a while before appreciating what the true effects of the change are. The testing time would correspond to however long it takes to observe. So? >> While the placebo affect can be real and must be watched out for, a response by a number of people who agree on the effects of a given change is probably reliable without DBT, although not scientific or certain. Whoah there! This is all about the bandwagon effect - that's what makes it so powerful. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26436 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
