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May Belt: "For people interested in the history of scientific discoveries" .... You don't seem very interested to me

There are objective methods for listening to audio that reduce the possibilities of some important biases (such as expectations bias, and different A-B SPL's creating meaningless audible differences).

Objective listening for tweaks:

(1) The listeners are not told what tweak they are hearing.

(2) Listeners attempt to prove they can hear a difference between using the tweak and using no tweak, with a low (under 5%) margin of error.

(3) Only if they can hear a difference should their subjective comments about the tweak be taken seriously (and are very unlikely to be solely the result of overactive imaginations.) Their comments could be grossly exaggerated or not audible to your ears, but proof of audibilty makes a tweak "real", rather than a fantasy.

You and Mr. Belt's so called 'science' merely assumes (1) and (2) above are true simply because a listener merely claims he hears a difference.

That is not science at all.

Nor is it objective.

Since you are claiming to be a "manufacturer" at this forum, it would make sense to assume that your posts could be biased by profits on the products you sell.

Some people claim your products are snake oil that make audiophiles buying them appear to be fools. I am one of them. We may be wrong.
Or we may be right.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007


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