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Re: Why wont ABX show a difference?

My take is that the human mind does poorly in making a decision like this. I also found that ABX testing was useless for me to tell the differences between similar products or designs, yet my friends and I could hear the differences in more open testing, such as a blind A-B test. I mentioned this in a LTE in1979 to Dr. Lipshitz and the other avid ABXers, but I have never gotten a satisfactory response. They just don't believe me. Once Dr. Lipshitz wrote me an LTE where he said 'roughly': "Your math is OK, your measurements are OK, BUT it is impossible for you to hear differences between caps. ... We have tried it with ABX measurements, and always got a negative result. " These are not the exact words, but that was the point. What can I say? Walt Jung sent Dr Lipshitz some of the worst sounding tantalum caps he had ever found. Guess what the ABX test found? NOTHING!


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