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Aczel believed, but the differences weren't audible

Back around 1980 to 1981 Peter Aczel was a pretty hard core subjectivist. I remember him arguing with Tomlinson Holman that the Apt preamp needed to warm up for a couple of weeks before it sounded good. He heard all kind of things that couldn't be measured when reviewing electronics, yet when he started participating in level-matched DBT's, the differences he thought he'd hear weren't there. He was certainly a believer going into the tests, and he was an experienced listener, but he couldn't tell the difference in a blind test with the levels matched.

His experience is described in a new biographical interview on the Audio Critic website. He describes the experience as an epiphany, a real "Paul on the road to Damascus " moment. Of course, people here will just say it wasn't an epiphany,more likely it was a small stroke that left him partly deaf.


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