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A quitessential example of the disconnect between objectivists and their pet peeve...

bias effects. ""Room treatments can effect such dramatic improvements that no DBTs are necessary..." Psychoacoustics 101. Bias effects are in play regardless of how dramatic actual objective changes to the sound. And if one really thinks about it and is concerned about bias effects it when there are actual audible differences that we should be most concerned about them. It's really simple. If two components really do sound alike and someone forms a preference based on sighted bias they are not getting an objectively audibly inferior component. OTOH if bias effects are the persuasive factor in a choice between two components that are objectively audibly different one could end up with an objectively inferior product. It's funny that Arny, who has seemned to have dedicated his life to ABX DBTs would get such a basic aspect of bias effects so plainly wrong.


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