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How about this...

Take the three discs and have one blessed by a Rabbi, one by a Catholic Priest, and one by the Dali Lama. Of course you are going to need a non-denominational congregation in order to test the discs, else faith-based powers may sway the results!!

Ha Ha Ha! I digress... but seriously now:

1. The test has no validity. It is merely a subjective claim.

Here is what you need to do. The test IS blind - since the person listening did NOT know which discs were in which room. But how do we know that adjectives were not assigned ala 'pick-of-the-hat' either intentionally or accidentally?

For the test to have and merit you would need to have this same person describe each disc almost identically (or at least identify them from eachother) on a number of occasions (five at least) and have a success rate over a predetermined value.

I bet you a dollar if the tests were reapeated with your present method you would get different "adjectives" for each disc each time.

2. There is no link between any possible physical (or meta-physical) changes in the dicsc due to environment and the alleged sonic differences heard. Why no placebo here? Give this same person three discs all stored in the same room and DON'T TELL HIM this.

I bet you will get three different descriptions once again.

The problem here is you're trying to turn belief into science, instead of using science to confirm belief.

If that floats your boat, then fine. But real science this is not. This is power of suggestion. You told someone to listen to three different discs and there was SUGGESTION (either directly or indirectly) that the discs were different. So the good test subject did what he was supposed to do: hear and report differences.

But don't let me stop you. If you invent a magic box in which to store CD's that "varies the light intensity, color temperature, temperature, and relative humidity as to prolong the life of the discs and actually freshen it's content" you go right ahead.

I'll go and get the tar and feathers.

Cheers,

Presto

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