In Reply to: Why wont ABX show a difference? posted by Jerry Parker on November 27, 2002 at 23:31:48:
My take is that the human mind does poorly in making a decision like this. I also found that ABX testing was useless for me to tell the differences between similar products or designs, yet my friends and I could hear the differences in more open testing, such as a blind A-B test. I mentioned this in a LTE in1979 to Dr. Lipshitz and the other avid ABXers, but I have never gotten a satisfactory response. They just don't believe me. Once Dr. Lipshitz wrote me an LTE where he said 'roughly': "Your math is OK, your measurements are OK, BUT it is impossible for you to hear differences between caps. ... We have tried it with ABX measurements, and always got a negative result. " These are not the exact words, but that was the point. What can I say? Walt Jung sent Dr Lipshitz some of the worst sounding tantalum caps he had ever found. Guess what the ABX test found? NOTHING!
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Follow Ups
- Re: Why wont ABX show a difference? - john curl 09:59:06 11/28/02 (3)
- Just curious how did they test them?? - Robert Hamel 07:30:10 11/29/02 (2)
- Re: Just curious how did they test them?? - john curl 10:18:37 11/30/02 (1)
- Thanks for where to look.nt. - Robert Hamel 15:54:10 11/30/02 (0)