Re: A reasonable argument against double blind tests?

Howard Ferstler <ferstle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

<snipsalot>

Since most are not well versed in electronics, they add bottles of
sand, alarm clocks, gold plated cables with boxes or L-shapes to
their systems.
It makes them feel better, so their system "sounds better".


No. They think it sounds better. Basically, you are saying
that if being insane makes a person feel better lets just
let him remain insane. No, you go beyond that. You basically
say that if doing stupid things makes a person happy we
should find more stupid things for him to do so that he
becomes even happier.


Maybe my choice of words was poor, but that's certainly not what I
intended to say.
We were speaking about audio here.


So what? More power to them.


Yeah, if a guy gets happy on drugs lets give him still more
drugs so he gets even more happy. OK, hard drugs is a poor
analogy. Lets just say liquor or cigarettes.


Again, that is not what I intended.
I was talking about audio and the preferences people can and are
allowed to have.

Frankly, I'm a little disappionted that you are trying to score some
cheap points here.
Well, maybe I deserved it for years of mocking you ;-)


DBTs for consumer audio are irrelevant, since the only area where it
could be useful, speakers, it is useless ;-)


Well, the DBT can be useful with speaker evaluation.


The only reasonable AB test of speakers would need a turntable, and
even then, the problems of interference with the unconnected
loudspeakers that are in the way somehow, need to be taken into
consideration.


I can, too. What I like about you is that you are not
writing magazine reviews that laud the sound of components
that are not particularly special. I also do not believe
that you approve what those people are doing. They may make
people happy, but they do so by basically getting them to
spend more than necessary. Yes, I realize that some people
need to spend big in order to be happy, but I do not believe
that suckering people into spending that way is admirable
behavior.


While I largely agree with you on this, I don't think my "approval",
or lack of it, would change anything.
And it shouldn't, either.

People buy what they want, based on all kinds of reasoning, or
sometimes even absence of reasoning.
It's what makes the economy work.

--
"All amps sound alike, but some sound more alike than others".
.

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