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RE: "That does not mean there are no differences, but the scale certainly changes. "

Posted by Tony Lauck on June 19, 2010 at 11:15:12:
If one adopts a "good enough" attitude in selecting individual components there is a real risk that one will end up with a system that is not good enough.

If a difference can not easily pass a rigorous blind test then it is probably not sonically significant. Unfortunately, if one uniformly discounts "insignificant" differences, then one may end up with a system that contains the sum of many small "insignificant" differences and one may have a system that is significantly degraded. The problem is that "sounds the same" is not a transitive relation. A can sound the same as B and B can sound the same as C, but there may be an obvious difference in sound when comparing A and C.

Perhaps this is one reason why the best sound is found in the homes of deluded crazy "audiophools". The "sounds the same to me" and "theory says it must sound the same" crowd end up with mediocrity.