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Blind Listening Tests

Posted by Sumflow on June 13, 2012 at 19:01:36:

Sordidman > Your statement implies that manufacturers have a common goal, and fall short in achieving it. <

Well yeah. They each want to sell something that everybody else in the world wants.

Sordidman > I am not sure what your two condescendingly vague little anecdotes are exactly intended to elucidate, but it still appears to me that you are making completely erroneous, (and quite childish), assumptions about audio equipment based on a dramatic lack of experience. <

If what you say is true there would be no need to have blind listening tests. It would sound the same even with your eyes wide open. But it seems that we tend to hear what we want to hear. Even more so with a financial conflict of interest involved.