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RE: No reason to care unless you buy things

>> Secondly, even a well done blind test with controls and a baseline for
>> what can be detected does not PROVE anything...

While certainly true in a strict sense, that ignores the weight of the cumulative evidence that strongly suggests that, when deprived of visual or other non-audio clues or absent advance knowledge of make, model and other details, that many of the vast differences claimed for this audio item over that one fade dramatically, if they do not disappear completely.

Sure, a blind test may not resolve the issue that, with the wind from the north, the moon in a gibbous phase and a different isotope of unobtanium, differences may have been detectable in a blind test.

But, even given that, something tells me the "sighted" description of those differences is going to be far more verbose and dramatic than the blind narrative of results.



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