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In Reply to: Only golden ears have closed minds -- all objective audiophiles started out as golden ears posted by Richard BassNut Greene on June 1, 2006 at 14:25:39:
Certainly there is some truth in what you say, I have never been able to distinguish between interconnects when listening blind (Audiotruth Lapis v Emerald v Opal) or speaker cable (Audiotruth Clear v Midnight).I have, however, been able to distinguish between a tube amp (SF Power 2 and McCormack DNA .5) on most source material.
I have also been able to distinguish between the maxed Home Headroom and the headphone output from the SF Line 3 SE which uses the headroom processing, in both instances using the same cans (Sennheiser 600s & 650s) on a good number of sources.
While I agree that DBT or SBT are objectively the correct way to evaluate equipment I think you understate the difficulties in performing such tests. I remember when living in PA, I visited a major high end salon in NJ to purchase a new CDP. I listened blind to 3 contenders (through a line 3 with phones to eliminate room differences). Unable to hear substantial differences between the players based on constant switching over many hours, I eventually chose a machine and took it home. This was not the cheapest machine and had all the pride of ownership/"jewellery" value you could want.
Unfortunately after about a week I noticed that this machine wasn't drawing me into the music in the way my old player had. The basic problem was that in my system the bass through this thing was HUGE, not fat, just larger than life.
I cannot explain why I missed this trait during my audition but in any event I ended up getting rid of the player and getting one of the others I had auditioned (a cheaper one) - and was extremely happy with it (until the #@!% transport went last year).
I agree with the concept of DBT and I do think the audio press should conduct such tests, but I think most real differences are noted when you are'nt really looking for differences - your just listening to music and it hits you and that is very difficult to replicate in formal testing.
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