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Well, blind tests have it all over sighted listening for reliability.

When Stereophile's reviewers actually prove they can hear the difference between 3 foot interconnects and 12 foot speaker cables, I'll pay attention to those kinds of reviews. They seldom even bother to measure their performance. Some magazines have done blind tests with some controls and also some of the audio clubs.

Stereophile measures the performance of products given full reviews, but they don't bother to establish that their reviewers can actually hear the difference between most CDPs, amplifiers, and so on.

Speakers will sound different, not needing a blind test to establish that, and John Atkinson does a good set of measurements those given a full review. Subjective reviews depend on the tastes of the reviewer, which may differ from those of the reader, and on the reviewers ability to say something intelligent about them. Even so the results are likely to differ under blind conditions.
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