aubuti wrote: > Interesting point of view. I also value price-performance, which is > exactly why I prefer to do blind testing as much as is practically > possible if only to convince _myself_. Even if you don't go the DBT > whole nine yards it is often easy to do a less rigorous, but still > revealing, single blind test. Many of the differences I am sure I that I > can detect when I know what I am listening to (or tasting, in the case > of wines and single malts) either disappear or become a lot more subtle > when I don't have the visual/mental cues. > > On the other hand, in day to day usage the visual/mental cues are still > there, and there are many people who are unbothered in taking that into > account when evaluating sound quality or price-performance.
That wine sure tastes not so great out of a styrofoam cup . . . Guido F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guidof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40448 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
