drmatt wrote: > Ok, maybe you're right and lots of people are wrong. One thought. What > can explain the phenomenon of multiple independent reviewers/listeners > attributing the same type of character to a given DAC then? I really > don't believe there is some giant conspiracy here, with a cheat sheet > being sent out for the reviewers to plagiarise on each product.
One component is the horoscope effect - statements that are vague enough that the reader will interpret them to fit the appropriate situation. The other is groupthink (rather than conspiracy). Reviewers do read each other's reviews. > Long term though, I've always picked it up. So far. Still deluded? ;) Confident enough to help figure out how to test that? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
