DCtoDaylight;351968 Wrote: 
> Right but there's nothing anywhere that say's ABX testing needs to be
> short term.

Indeed, one can test by listening to a sample as long as one wants...
--but they don't do that--.

> Medical ABX tests routinely run for months and sometimes years, in order
> to properly evaluate the results.  It may not be convenient to do that
> with audio gear, but I personally believe that's what's required.

Explain me how to do that? you can't sit and listen to a sample for
months or years...?? If you mean repeating the tests you are right that
more samples up's the statistical power but I am talking about the
length of each sample.

> Look at it this way, everybody has taken an aspirin at some point in
> their life, but one pill won't reduce your risk of stroke.  Low
> dosages, over a long time, will.  So a short term ABX test would
> produce one result, a long term ABX would produce another.

Exactly. We seem to agree ;-)

cheers,
Nick.


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