P Floding;152563 Wrote: > This is a hobby. People must be allowed to have opinions. > The ABX-fetichism has gone too far for my taste. I think most people > here know by now that some people are unable to have opinions without > doing blind tests. How boring life must be for them.
Exactly. One can get skewed results with guitars as well. There is a clear difference betwen spruce and cedar tops. But if you ABX and frequently or rapidly switch betwen the two blind you can confuse anyone. It's easy to "fail" a blind test. That doesn't mean there is no difference. No guitarist or luthier would claim there is no difference. Spruce is more dense and rigid and has a different sound. Yet, people fail this blind test, depending on how the test is done. The very fact that you are tested can change the way you hear. And all you objectivists out there, remember how you were talking about the subjectivity of hearing(dependency of mood, health etc.) before you reject that hypothesis) so it is not implausible to posit that blind testing itself may introduce another variable and ABX itself is not a foolproof method of detecting differences. I am sure one could take measurably different components and still get a "no diffrence" result from an ABX test. I in no way wish to deny the possible effectiveness of ABX. I merely wish to point out that it may not be the only tool we should use and, indeed, it may be more limited than some assume. -- tomjtx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomjtx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
