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"I propose that a blind test is more valid." I'll see you halfway.

But then, your proposal doesn't satisfy the bloodlust of the DBT savages does it? So why bother? Let's just have "transparency" and be done with it, shall we?

Back in the days of The Listening Studio, where my electronics were in a room behind the speakers, it was a simple matter to change things so that the listeners didn't know what I was doing. Switch an amp? A preamp? A cable? Tweak a disc? Nada did they know!

Thus the results were untainted by any expectation of even the *sort* of thing they were to listen for.

Not only that, but to keep everyone honest, once in a while I'd change NOTHING. And they knew that possibility had to be factored in rather like those tests where wrong answers are subtracted from right answers (no answer, being neutral).

And occasionally I'd sit, and let others do the work. We got lots of good results in that simplified regimen.

clark


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