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BLIND TESTS PROVE audiophiles wrong 50% of the time or more, except with speakers

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In Reply to: RE: How many nifty nicknames can one numbskull note? posted by madisonears on May 09, 2008 at 10:25:06

You just need the woids "BLIND TESTS PROVE" in ALL CAPS to perturb people around here.
They explode before they finish the sentence.
When comparing a stereo component with itself, we audiophiles will typically claim to hear differences 50% to 75% of the time when no differences are possible.
Those results have been repeated again and again over three decades.
The actual number was 62% of the time in the infamous Stereopile Blind amp test.
In trials where an amp was compared to itself, 62% of the time the Stereophile blind test participant reported hearing differences when none were possible ... in spite of the fact that Atkinson was winking, and twiching his ears, and making hand gestures, to tip off the listeners and get the golden ear "accuracy" (100%) he so desperately wanted!
You could look it up.
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Richard BassNut Greene
"The Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"

Edits: 05/09/08 05/09/08

Follow Ups:

Independent tests PROVE Mr. Nut wrong 93% of the time....(nt) - mkuller 11:19:35 05/09/08 (2)
- And the other 7% were audio tests done on deaf people (nt) - kerr 12:29:37 05/09/08 (1)
  - "I see...." - alan m. kafton 17:09:13 05/11/08 (0)

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