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Re: And there's the whole problem

You said "The very act of creating a true DBT situation automatically leads to extra difficulties etc...."

Since this is true, and no one familiar with the subject claims otherwise, you need appropriate facilities and well trained listeners. If I understand you correctly you are not saying that DBTs are inherently flawed. Because if they were, you wouldn't have said in your AES paper that listening tests must be done blind, or would you?

Of course, amateurs don't have neither the means nor the listening skills to conduct DBTs properly, that's why such DBTs have to be conducted by professionals. And since professionally done DBTS are not inherently flawed, rants against DBT such as by R. Harley years ago are rather meaningless.

So if people claim that differences between cables exist or that the intelligent chip modifies the sound of CDs it is more than legitimate to ask whether these effects have been shown in properly conducted DBTs, reliably and in a repeatable manner.


Klaus

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