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RE: No reason to care unless you buy things

"A person could also claim and believe they hear a 50KHz, 500KHz or 500MHz super tweeter or anything else, but a simple blind test would reveal that if actually true or just a belief."

Only thing is, there is no such thing as a "simple" blind test, or an easy one, or one that doesn't require lots of planning, forethought and resources (including money).

Secondly, even a well done blind test with controls and a baseline for what can be detected does not PROVE anything, only that a failure to detect occurred. Period. This could be due to something as simple as a poorly conceived or poorly implemented listening test (for one without a detection baseline, which is what the vast majority of the amateur listening tests that are cited by objectionists as some sort of "proof").

Now, suppose that a manufacturer DID invest all the time, money and resources into conducting a really good blind test, would any of the hardcore objectionists believe the results, or allow that a valid positive occurred? Even with two such test results available?
Even if it was 3rd party conducted?

After all that, and the considerable expense it would entail, the question becomes, why bother? The objectionists will continue to dismiss and refuse to accept the evidence, and many of the subjectivists don't need any such "iron-clad results" anyway.

Jon Risch


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