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Why would anyone care?

If I could not hear a difference in a blind test, or a dozen audio club members had the same experience, then why would you care?

I'm not trying to prove there is no difference, or that you could not hear a difference. Why would more test details be of any use to anyone else who thinks 'everything sounds different'?

You, on the other hand, claim to have superior hearing skills that were demonstrated to witnesses, yet no one else in the world has demonstrated similar skills to witnesses. Those claims deserve a lot more questioning than "I couldn't hear a difference" reports. We all want to hear differences. Those who report they could not face character attacks -- told they are fools trying to ruin the religion, I mean hobby, by being objective.

I am merely pointing out that the golden ear experience where virtually everything makes a difference seems to happen only when brand names are known and two components play at different volumes.

Over three decades blind audition results have been a mirror-image of sighted audition results.

Certainly one type of audition is getting inaccurate results.

Since sighted auditions include imagined differences, and A-B SPL differences, I strongly believe they grossly overstate audible sound quality differences among audio components.

Typical results for blind auditions, basically the opposite of sighted uncontrolled listening experiences:

No audible differences = common

Small audible differences heard most of the time, by some listeners = sometimes

Moderate or large audible differences heard all of the time (or nearly always) by most listeners = rare
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Richard BassNut Greene
My Stereo is MUCH BETTER than Your Stereo


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