ralphpnj wrote: > Another fair question. My feelings on the analog side of things, and > power amps do fall on the analog side of things, are much less > "dogmatic' than they are on the digital side of things and so, as you > said, there are many factors which need to be accounted for when running > an ABX test on amplier/speaker combinations. But I would venture a guess > that the ABX test you outlined above would yield null results, i.e. I > would not be able to hear any difference. > > Why do you ask? Do you have a Yamaha receiver and some cash to trade for > my Sim Audio gear? Just be aware that the remote for the Sim Audio > preamp is very substantial and can be classified as a deadly weapon in > several US states.
No trades, I'm chock-full of equipment at this end. What I was thinking was to do a sort of Trading Places thing - have you listen to a cheap receiver for a month or so, and see if -- at the end of it -- you still feel that they sound identical. The neat part about this sighted test is that there's no way in hell you'd have any sort of expectation bias for any result other than the same null you'd get from that ABX test. Reason being, I've found over the years that changes of gear don't immediately give me the results that I'd think they would. A new component that I expect to like very much impresses in the very short term (expectation bias, I guess), but over the long haul turns out to be very disappointing. The symptom of that disappointment is that I find myself listening to less and less music. I know, you -scientists- say that sighted tests are bullshit. However you'd be on guard for the type of confounds that sucker in us gullible audiophiles, right? So at the end of the month, you'd undoubtedly be as happy listening through that receiver as you ever were using the Simaudio, right? Don't you think this would be fun? Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------ doctor_big's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15196 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
