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You still haven’t explained why DBTs can’t work for listening

I work in speech research and we have successfully been using blind listening tests for decades to detect very subtle details in speech and audio perception. Hearing, as with any human stimuli, is perceived by the mind and therefore easily influenced by expectations and emotions.

In fact, our ability to understand speech is dependant on the amazing involuntary human ability to seamlessly create audio we never heard. Without that key skill, speech wouldn’t work.

Rather than continually dismiss the total failure of DBTs to substantiate audiophile cable claims with contrived excuses – maybe the reason cable difference tests fail is because DBTs are actually successful and indicate the listener most likely imagined the difference?



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