darrenyeats wrote: > I think the facts are with the majority's side. My experience of blind > listening was educational and humbling! However, there is a bit of > glibness going on I feel because I wager none of us listened blind when > choosing our loudspeakers.... Be careful not to cut down the branch you > sit on.
Your post is a good example of conflating two separate issues. 1. No one ever needs to justify their personal preference when choosing a stereo component for their own use (or for that matter, declaring they like one vegetable more than another). Even if they sound the same under blind conditions, it really doesn't matter if my subconscious adds an inexplicable advantage to one component over another because of size, shape, color, what my mother told me when I was 5 years old, or whatever. All of those things add to my personal experience. The problem is that my subjective preferences aren't transferable to others. 2. However, if one is doing research in the area of human hearing and perception or have a particular need to isolate sonic differences from the subjective background chatter in the mind, then blind testing becomes critical. Not many people really need to do that in the process of buying something for themselves. My wish, which I know if unlikely to see realization, is for the level of hyperbole to drop a few degrees and people admit that their subjective preference doesn't always have a "scientific" explanation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97489 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
