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Barring - highly improbable - first-hand familiarity with each other's components,....

... the only truly useful information you could get is the overall level of the system, based on reviews, user feedback, specs, design details, price etc.

And, while all of that is definitely useful, the only way this information would - for me - disqualify someone's opinion is scenario like this:

1. Person insists on not hearing differences that, in my opinion, should be obvious (between two drastically different sources, for instance), and
2. Details of the system reveal:
- either its, in my opinion, crappiness - or, in other words, being unable to resolve those differences mentioned above, or
- its greatness, in which case hearing is the culprit, or negative expectation bias.

In other scenarios than that, when person is able to distinguish differences, I don't see how details of his system would affect my judgement.

Oh, and "recordings being played" - that's pretty much useless, unless music is so limited, frequency range wise (solo voice?), that it doesn't allow to evaluate system properly.


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