I think you are missing the point. A-B-X testing, blind or otherwise, as advocated by the (pseudo-)objectivists is a poor way to judge differences between systems, because it is more a test of musical memory than musical perception. For it to be useful, you have to be capable of remembering the "A" and the "B" and then comparing these memories to the "X". While Mozart is reputed to have heard Allegri's Misere once and then wrote out the score from memory, few normal people can remember more than a few seconds of a musical experience, and then only some aspects of it.
Imagine, for example, listening to a minute long guitar solo - several hundred notes, lets say. Now imagine listening to the same musician playing a very similar solo, but changing some notes or some subtleties of phrasing, perhaps in the middle, as musicians do. Now imagine someone playing one of the solos again, and asking you which was which? Bet you couldn't always do it reliably. Doesn't mean they were the same. -- JezA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JezA's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21219 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61877 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
