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Soitenly ...but it's wonderful to know sighted auditions NEVER have any errors -- ALL components ALWAYS sound different

Sadly many differences among electronics and wires are nothing more than small SPL differences (slightly louder usually sounds better, or at least different).

And sadly many loudspeakers are auditioned in different rooms where a the room with better acoustics can make an inferior speaker sound better when compared with a superior speaker in a mediocre listening room.

One great example of this:
I auditioned a multi-thousand dollar pair of speakers in the designers living room. The very tall ceiling created quite an echo and the speakers had too little treble output for my CDs (and I prefer below-average treble output in speakers).
I would not have bought them at any price.

Another pair of the same speakers in the designers CUSTOM home theater in his basement (he actually wrote a great book on building home theaters) were the best home theater speakers I had ever heard (a much better room ... and music videos usually sound too bright to me with most speakers, but not with his speakers).

The downstairs speakers were still a little dull sounding with my CDs, but not bad (compared with the upstairs speakers and their echo off the tall ceiling in his living room.

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