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In blind tests reported in the 1960s....

Don't ask me to cite them, I can't. I probably read about them in the audiophile magazines of the day, High Fidelity, Stereo Review, and Audio.

In one audiophiles were asked one at a time to adjust a control which tweaked a circuit which claimed to reduce distortion. They tweaked and listened and tweaked and listened until they were satisfied. The control was of course connected to nothing.

In another, audiophiles were assembled in a large room and told they would be listening to a new speaker system hidden behind a curtain and asked for their opinion of its accuracy. There was apparantly much to criticize, muddy boomy bass, indistinct highs and a lot of other negative comments. When the curtain was drawn aside, it was revealed that they had been listening to a live string quartet.

It's experiments like these and several I've seen for myself which convinces me that what many audiophiles think they hear and what they actually can hear are worlds apart. And that includes so called professionals who get paid for their opinions which are published in magazines.

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