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In Reply to: single-blind auditions of borrowed components at home posted by BassNut on April 9, 2003 at 14:48:09:
Hi BassNut."Borrowed components"
You are very lucky to have access to audio stores where you can borrow
equuipment you are interested before paying for them. Not everywhere
in this world got such excellent customer service available. I don't think there is such borrow-&-return system readily available in my area. Even there is, as I already pointed out, how many times you can
keep on borrowing & returning without buying before you eventually settle down with the ones you really like? Will you still have the gut to go back to the same store again if you decide not to buy the borrowed items from it? I won't."And I never have a salesman telling me what to hear at home"
With the huge borrow-and-return favour I am getting from the audio stores, surely I don't mind to pretend listening to the sales guys' pitches there. Besides, not ALL the audio salespersons in this world will woo you with sales talk. I have met a lot of good salespersons who give me useful advice on various components, which can be used as a general guideline at least. They never pull a gun & point it at my head!
"Single-blind comparision"
This is an interesting issue: how do you carry it out properly at home? How do you hide the identity of the components you are comparing? You put up a sound transparent curtain, or using a ABX box (that will be a big deal, if not a nightmare, to me), to make sure you are not really cheating yourself? Otherwise, it would be a very very compromised "blind" listening test, or it would only be a pseudo-sighted test instead.
The point I want to make is: there is nothing wrong with sighted
test at home or in the stores, as long as you keep an open mind & share the opinions of other listeners who take part in the comparision. The final verdict is still yours. Are we all doing this all the time?You still haven't response to my repeated question to you:
"You keep on saying sighted audition is not 'scientific' & 'not reliable'. So what is better?".It is only a friendly discussion on your gross "accusation" against
sighted audio comparision, which we have been doing since day one. Blind listening test sounds more scientific, but is not without flaw. It's very very difficult to do it right. Don't take it too seriously. Please don't feel being 'cornered'.
Good listening.
cheap-Jack
April 10, 2003.
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Follow Ups
- Re: single-blind auditions of borrowed components at home - cheap-Jack 08:04:51 04/10/03 (1)
- Re: single-blind auditions of borrowed components at home - BassNut 13:20:47 04/11/03 (0)
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