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In Reply to: Characteristics of consumer-oriented audio publications posted by Avocat on March 20, 2007 at 09:37:07:
They do what you want the closest.They take say 5 amplifiers have a panel of listeners (often - the makers of the amplifiers among others) and they blindly listen level matched and score the gear). As Choice notes - some of the makers do not even choose their own equipment as best.
Unfortunately their results get automatically chucked because they actually do find amplifiers that are woefully lacking in sound and after all - all SS amplifiers working properly sound the same enough for nobody to detect the differences - so since the results are not the same as the objectives believe them to "should" be then they blame the fact that their is a panel influence blah blah blah.
Bottom line:
Level Matched
Blind
Lot's of listenersThey also have sighted reviewing. The fact is though that it STILL boils down to YOU getting of your ass and listening to it yourself. The fact that 99 people choose system A and 1 person chose system B does not mean that YOU will fall into the camp of 99 people. It's not a democracy in science - just because MOST doctors agree on something or most scientists or most engineers does not make them right.
That's the main problem with probability in the first place. Is my car in the parking lot? Well I parked it there, as I have done the last 200 days. And every time I go to the parking lot it has been there. Yet when I go to the parking lot "it's not there" this time. The probability of a thing to happen stops when in fact the opposite does.
For instance the notion that there is a 50% probability that if you flip a coin it will be heads and 50% that it will be tails in fact makes not one bit of sense if you say the statement after the coin was flipped.
In fact there is a 100% fact and a 0% fact once the coin is flipped. If it is heads it is 100% heads not a 50% chance to be heads.
Of course probability theory helps you decide whether you want to go and spend money gambling in Las Vegas. But how someone else hears audio gear in a test environment and how you will hear it when not is a big leap of faith.
So there is a large Faith based component in probability followers that borders on religion.
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