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Are you forgetting the "Wanting to Hear Differences Bias"?

Audiophiles are so biased toward reporting they hear differences that they will claim to hear differences 50% to 75% of the time when comparing a component with itself.

That potential bias should be taken into account when you hear someone else say they hear a difference with your system. Wives often say this just to make us happy!

Actually if just one audiophile can hear a difference, then one can conclude there are audible differences.

Objective test results only apply to the people involved, but the results should be of interest to others because they are so much different than what happens in sighted auditions ... but then most people reject evidence that contradicts their pre-existing beliefs with many subjects -- audio is just one of them.

A subjective preference is most likely meaningless if there is no audible difference between two components under controlled conditions, or if the ONLY audible difference is a slight SPL A-B difference (which WILL exist between virtually any two components unless SPL adjustments are made)
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Richard BassNut Greene
My Stereo is MUCH BETTER than Your Stereo


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