In Reply to: RE: "Clearly where a DBT is useful is when someone claims HUGE differences " = WrOnG ... wRoNg ... WrOnG posted by Analog Scott on June 6, 2008 at 09:11:33:
DBT's are designed to find differences among components.
For slow audiophiles like you, that means real differences, not imagined differences or different A-B volumes.
If no difference can be heard, when comparing a borrowed component with your own, for one example, it would most likely be a waste of money to buy that borrowed component if your goal was improving the sound quality of your stereo.
You might want to buy the component for other reasons, such as pride of ownership, appearance, or to impress golden ear audiophiles who "believe in" the brand. That would be your preference/bias.
Blind tests are lie detectors for golden ears like yourself who think every component sounds different, can never prove that belief to witnesses.
People like you who like to argue with anyone who has discovered "everything sounds different" is a myth for their ears and all other ears that have ever been put to a test.
People like you who prefer to attack the characters of anyone who questions the "everything sounds different myth" ... simply because your ego is all tied up in expensive audio equipment that may, or may not, make a real audible difference compared with the component it replaced.
.
.
.
.
Richard BassNut Greene
"The Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- You are among the slowest audiophiles I've ever encountered -- did you take the short bus to school? - Richard BassNut Greene 06/6/0812:02:18 06/6/08 (19)
- Bas nut you really are embarrassing your fellow objectivists - Analog Scott 10:27:15 06/7/08 (0)
- actually "everything sounds the same" is the myth. - Teresa 03:49:19 06/7/08 (10)
- I NEVER SAID "everything sounds the same" -- you appear brainwashed that all components sound different - Richard BassNut Greene 11:28:21 06/7/08 (9)
- From over 40 years of listening I have never in my entire life found 2 of anything that sound the same! NEVER - Teresa 16:56:54 06/7/08 (5)
- It's true because I say so is not exactly the scientific objective proof I was seeking - Richard BassNut Greene 13:04:10 06/8/08 (4)
- I can tell you why, that 50-75% of the time he/she liked that part of the song/selection better. - Teresa 18:49:48 06/8/08 (0)
- When have you ever sought "scientific objective proof" of anything? - Analog Scott 18:45:33 06/8/08 (2)
- "You only seek that which suits your dogma & reject everything that contradicts it."(every DOGMA has it's day) - Richard BassNut Greene 09:15:31 06/9/08 (1)
- RE: "You only seek that which suits your dogma & reject everything that contradicts it."(every DOGMA has it's day) - Analog Scott 14:06:33 06/9/08 (0)
- And no one said "everything sounds different," either, RBGN. - robert young 11:59:40 06/7/08 (2)
- Almost every statement by high-end audiophiles implies everything sounds different - Richard BassNut Greene 12:13:00 06/7/08 (1)
- ""I can't hear a difference" is rarely, if ever, claimed ... even when a component is compared with itself!" - robert young 12:28:27 06/7/08 (0)
- RE: You are among the slowest audiophiles I've ever encountered -- did you take the short bus to school? - RGA 14:58:20 06/6/08 (5)
- Short bus for you too? - Richard BassNut Greene 11:35:56 06/7/08 (4)
- Man you need help help finding the bus... - RGA 17:57:27 06/7/08 (3)
- I chased the bus to school every day ... and then back home too - Richard BassNut Greene 09:24:02 06/9/08 (0)
- RGA, re. Hi-Fi Choice, are you meaning to say ... - Feanor 04:15:46 06/8/08 (1)
- RE: RGA, re. Hi-Fi Choice, are you meaning to say ... - RGA 10:43:55 06/8/08 (0)
- Not that there's anything wrong with the short bus (nt) - Richard BassNut Greene 12:03:35 06/6/08 (0)