Ok, back to your premise about cognitive psychology. When I did the fake preamp test, and they gave me that deer-in-the-headlight look........"I can't hear any difference.......was I supposed to......did I screw up.......?", I then moved on the next aspect of sorting out the keen listeners.
Which, for those who are interested, was to try a listening test with different UUTs, where everyone at the shop all agreed sounded a certain way. Did not mean absolute correctness, but that they listened to things in the same manner that we did, and came to the same conclusion. A self-fulfilling prophecy? Maybe. But we did have a certain target market in mind. It would not have been beneficial to pick folks who preferred the warmth of tubes, and would not be happy if our SS amps did not have that "glorious midrange" that those folks seem to prefer. We did have some listeners who did own some tube gear, but they also had lots of SS gear as well. Picking listeners that we felt that we could trust was tough. Having them disperse across the country over a period of 20 years aided in our exit from active manufacturing. At least on a full-time basis. We tried to assemble a new team about 5 or so years ago, and found that all of us were now too old to be zealous about any of it. Pat -- ar-t http://www.analogresearch-technology.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ar-t's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56712 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
