blind listening tests are as you have discovered very hard work ....to the point that the music becomes secondary imo.
All the DBT's I've been involved with failed because of this ....even the most obvious test a portable cdp against a high end unit was not conclusive in the statistical results. Though the high end unit was picked 100% on normal listening as the better unit. For me it seems that when you put pressure on people or yourself to score or quantify blind options it seems to then dominate the proceedings over the actual listening. Would you block two or more of your senses if you went for a wine tasteing so why do the same with music ? Thats said ...nice write up all the same -- zanash Acoustician and builder of interesting cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zanash's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12157 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42797 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
