darrenyeats wrote: > I was criticised on this very forum for writing about differences I > heard in power supplies for my SB3. It's actually quite frustrating when > people give technical arguments for why your own experience is "wrong" > (when actually no experience is wrong--see next post) so I have sympathy > for jh901. > > Subsequently, I had several experiences with sighted versus blind > listening which made me feel my own sighted impressions for differences > that are measurably small (basically, any differences in competently > designed modern line-level equipment) are unreliable. > > The point being, there might be audible differences, but I don't trust > myself to determine this by my listening sighted. > > To jh901 and others, I have no doubt this will come across as quite sad > in a way, but it is how I view things now. > Darren
Nicely put and exactly my experience as well. A number of years ago, I wanted to test my ability to differentiate 16/44 from 24/96 since I always "thought" I experienced "clear" differences. The day that I put myself through a controlled ABX experiment changed many of my preconceived notions including how I started interpreting the comments of other fellow audiophiles, and comments made in the press. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
