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Obvious differences, blind tests and white lies

"The Blind Test was pretty much a joke. When the Base is on, it is so obvious that you would need to have a hearing impediment not to be able to pick it out."

Have you done any double blind tests? I ask this not to doubt that you hear something, but rather because of your remark. It's been my personal experience that differences that "obviously" require a "hearing test" often become inaudible as soon as one partakes of a blind test. I remember some blind tests conducted by Brad Meyer in which everything sounded the same and as the test continued everything started to sound like s****.

As to others hearing the same thing, this is what one would expect from guests in one's home. I've equivocated on more than one occasion during an audio demonstration when I was a guest. There are at least two good psychological reasons for this. People avoid conflict. People also are unwilling to admit that they aren't hearing something that others are reporting.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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