Phil Leigh;687922 Wrote: > Well duh! Obviously sighted tests are useful when you are choosing > something based on a visual aesthetic.
I'm afraid you may have misunderstood my extremely simplistic illustration. It is not that I intend to tightly couple 'sighted' with visual only. By sighted I mean being aware which of the two 'components' (in my example, one 'component' would be an extremely bodacious looking eligible woman, while the other 'component' would be a less attractive eligible woman) are currently 'functioning'. My point is that if a subject is not aware of which of the two women he is spending time with during the 'blind' test, he may have trouble telling them apart (they both function pretty much to his satisfaction). However, the moment the subject is given a choice, he will go for the more 'prestigious' choice (in his personal opinion, based on his personal likes and dislikes, which as we all know strongly gravitate toward the more curvaceous woman). And since we're seeing the same pattern in many choices of audio components (i.e. going for the component that we reckon will be more prestigious for us), all I'm saying is why fight it? -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
