In Reply to: I understand all that posted by Commuteman on August 13, 2003 at 09:53:58:
3. Differences "heard" during a sighted audition that were claimed to be "so HUGE even the wife could hear them", were nothing more than figments of an audiophile's overactive imagination
The single blind methodology is most useful for audiophiles.
Double-blind is too much trouble and ABX switchboxes are wauy too expensive.
For example, I tell an audio salesman that I want to audition
amplifier A and amplifier B. I ask NOT to be told which one is playing. Then I take off my eyeglasses so I can't possibly see
which amplifier is playing ... and I focus on the sound quality.
While both amplifiers will not be playing at exactly the same volume,
the time delay required to swap cables will reduce the chance that
a small SPL difference would affect my preference. So I would have turned an ordinary sighted audition ... into a single-blind audition with almost no effeort on my part ... although the salesman may have difficulty keeping quiet!
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Follow Ups
- Number 3 result from blind audition that you forgot to list - Richard BassNut Greene 11:52:01 08/14/03 (13)
- That's number 1, and you missed the point entirely. - Commuteman 14:12:48 08/14/03 (12)
- Do you really have an open mind about wires -- maybe not? - Richard BassNut Greene 07:24:33 08/15/03 (11)
- Where's Enid Lumley and J. Peter Moncrieff .... - Sean 23:27:09 08/19/03 (0)
- Is this a record for the longest thread on Prop Head Plaza without mindless name calling? - Commuteman 16:53:54 08/15/03 (4)
- Are we breaking some rule on this forum? - Richard BassNut Greene 08:08:32 08/18/03 (0)
- Well, it could just be a coincidence.... - Charles Hansen 21:01:01 08/16/03 (0)
- Re: Is this a record for the longest thread on Prop Head Plaza without mindless name calling? - Ted Smith 20:10:49 08/15/03 (1)
- You're just waiting patiently for the mindless name calling to begin - Richard BassNut Greene 08:12:27 08/18/03 (0)
- Hell, I don't even trust my own impressions - Commuteman 16:50:26 08/15/03 (4)
- Actually the DBT's don't really "work" - Richard BassNut Greene 19:45:08 08/15/03 (3)
- Now THAT I will buy.... - Commuteman 19:20:52 08/16/03 (2)
- The best blind test of all -- of the Bedini CD Clarifier - Richard BassNut Greene 08:38:29 08/18/03 (1)
- Maybe the system sounded better just holding the Bedini and the CD at the same time? ;-) - Commuteman 12:38:57 08/18/03 (0)