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I questioned the label "DBT" -- and so far it seems that label was misleading

There could be an objective method to gain useful knowledge from a subjective audition:

If a component's brand name was hidden, an audiophile could listen and write down his subjective impressions.

That could be repeated for 10 amplifiers -- each audiophile working alone would listen to an amplifier and write down his comments.

Then he would move on to the next amplifier, for a total of 10 amps.

Listeners would not be allowed to talk to each other, or compare notes to come to a "consensus".

The unedited subjective comments could be published as is.

If the listeners could really hear differencee among all the amplifiers, they should be expected to make similar comments about the sound quality of each amplifier.

While this would not be proof that amp differences are always or usually audible, it could be evidence that they were.

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