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But many will say, "I hear a difference"

They're not lying; nobody can legitimately challenge their perception. But is their perception valid?

Personally I believe there are a variety of things that will affect what we perceive -- some factors objectively/measurably affect we hear, many don't:

  • Prestige & price of a component
  • Touted advantages of particular technologies
  • Opinion of friends or reviewers
  • Our stress or fatigue levels
  • Affect of liquor, drugs, or medication
  • Synergy with our other components
  • The listening space, especially where not one's own
  • Unaccounted for changes to placement of speakers, etc.
  • ETC.

    Hard core objectivists will insist the intangible factors disappear in ABX testing. My personal opinion is the ABX testing can't prove that differences don't exist but that such differences are so slight as to be irrelevant.



    Dmitri Shostakovich


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