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In Reply to: WHAT ??????? posted by Omega14:6 on May 28, 2003 at 19:44:45:
I noticed reading British review magazines, they review products via panel, via BLIND listening tests to eliminate predjudices and snobbery. Note that Stereophile/TAS would never do that.
I think if we all shopped like that two things would happen.
1. We'd save money
2. A number of overpriced high-enders would bite the dust.
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Note that Stereophile/TAS would never do that.Harry would never have favored the Alon Grand Exoticas had they been hidden behind a screen!
Bwahahahaha! My guess is that you have never heard the Alons.
BTW, I have heard that system many times. Your sense of what an audio system can do gets instantly recalibrated. Comments you have made concerning the alleged snobbery of TAS lack any substance. Why is it then that HP loves the ASL Hurricanes that cost but a fraction of other great amps in his experience such as $21k Joule Electras, $30k VTL Wotans, $30k Edge Signatures, etc? The answer is obvious to those who know him or have followed the magazine for the past thirty years. Don't you have some ASL amps?
Check this out...
http://www.audioperfectionist.com/pages/watchdog1.html
AR LSTs rule, man!
Your point is blind testing using the same short music segment is the only valid technique of selecting equipment?That technique is as valid as choosing a future wife based on 30-second glances of women in a line-up.
I never mentioned a time constraint. You are injecting something here. I know the blind listening strikes fear into the hearts of "audiophiles" because it would force them to separate fact from placebo, and hype from reality.
But then again,it's absurd that someone would require MONTHS to evaluate a product. This is just self-justification for long-term use of free toys. Especially when breakin is measured in HOURS.Another form of snobbery:
When you really want to slam someone's taste in speakers, make sure you refer to them as "Designed for HT."
That in it's own right is one of the deepest slams I have seen without directly calling something "Mass midfi dreck."
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