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you are confusing two different issues...

One sees that a lot in this forum.

It is one thing to find what makes you happy when you listen to a system. If the quality of your listening experience improves when you have magic widgets in the room, then buy them by the gross. Since listening to music is such a personal experience it is not surprising that each person has their priorities in a different order. The audio characteristic that sends me into audio nirvana may leave you scratching your head.

This becomes a problem when one takes personal preferences and tries to elevate them to universal truth. A lot of that goes on in this forum and personal proclivities are routinely passed off as "scientific and technical discussion."

It is a worthy goal to try to do any scientific experiment in a manner that helps eliminate or minimize the personal bias or preferences of the researcher or test subjects. That is how knowledge progresses from magic potions (that may or may not do what is claimed) to more specific knowledge of an active ingredient or the real mechanism of why something performs as it does. Sometimes that process confirms what we believed all along and sometimes it shows the true extent of the emperor's new clothes.

Blind testing is an extraordinarily important tool in the advancement of science and our world would be much poorer, on all levels, without it. It is fascinating to watch the contortions some go through in an effort to even deny it a place in the toolbox.

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