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Couple of issues occur to me.

Shouldn't the hearing of DBT participants be tested before they participate? If you can't really hear very well, which you may or may not know (I know I can't hear a thing over 10kHz and my hearing below that is likely a collection of peaks and valleys), how can you distinguish all those subtle differences? Not an issue with pharmaceutical DBTs.

My tinnitus starts raging when I'm under stress. This pretty much obliterates my ability to make those subtle distinctions during "serious listening." Am I the only one? I wouldn't dream of taking a DBT for this reason alone. In fact, my auditioning of a new component is very much subject to the state of the tinnitus and/or other stress factors and I can only REALLY tell how it sounds after quite a bit of time has passed.

I've learned that my system sounds like hell until it's on for at least 20 minutes. An hour is better. More is better still. Do DBTs allow or compensate for this sort of thing, or do their proponents assume (as I've inferred) that such warm-up is fictional? If you're doing a test from something close to a dead cold (no warm-up, or not much of one), your response to subtle differences is going to change as the equipment heats up. At least mine would, if my tinnitus would let it :-)

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