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Re: The Inquisition Continues

>>This was the point of the parable I related at the HE2005 debate,
>>reprinted at www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/705awsi. The differences
>>between the amplifiers under test had not been detected by the
>>formal blind test but had been under normal, sighted, longer-term
>>listening.
>
>Your little parable demonstrates that detectable differences are not
>the sole criteria for long term satisfaction of any given device...

Perhaps you didn't read my essay carefully? Perhaps you didn't
comprehend what I wrote? My point was that all the non-audio factors
were working _in favor_ of the solid-state power amplifier. Yet my
dissatisfaction with its sound turned out to be very real. And that
shortfall in sound quality had _not_ been detected in what on the
face of things had appeared to be a well-organized and well-designed
blind test.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile


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