Blimey there is too much here to quote and answer...... but I am more and more amazed at how singled minded some comments/people are becoming.
To read suggesting that only speakers make a difference, because you can measure it, I guess this would be referring to some 3D water fall graph of frequency response ?
So amps and CD players over the last 20 years haven't moved on, and in a blind test would all sound the same.... or have I misread this ??? ....... Anyone suggesting this clearly hasn't listened, sighted or blind is not important, as the same result would be heard..... That is, much has changed.
It's about credibility, and sorry if someone wishes to make their judgment on equipment, by deciding if there is any scientific reason, from reading web pages has lost the plot.
Listen blind or sighted, but for FS listen !!!
To then feeling they are in a position to give advise is laughable !
Credibility comes from experience and knowledge not Trolling some belief (that's 3 times now)...... Example "blind tested these 3 items..... they all sounded the same" or "I listened to X Y and Z and bought Y".... but we get none of this "evidence" to support a point of view...... less, we are not to know what some people have heard, as it's some irrelevant secret !!!!......
Yes sure the cable industry is possible where most snake oil is found.... but there are some difference to be had, big or small.... Example, I have listened to some mains cables, for me in my system, they gave little or nothing. This was sighted testing. I have now problem to say I couldn't hear a difference (was some RA leads). For others they may work.... good no problem to me.
To ask another or raise another thought, some systems better convey the emotion or the rhythm or timing of the music, so how would you measure that ?..... Or how do you "listen" for that effect..... OR maybe some people don't. Question HOW do people listen, judging just quantity of bass and treble ?????......OR do we have to say it does not exist, because we can't prove it or measure it ?
I have no problem with the idea to use a blind listening test, if people need that as a controlled way of proving what they hear.... just a shame that those preaching don't practice it, and explain some results......
You know to have it suggested that you can only hear what your told, and that all you hear is nothing more than a placebo effect just exposes such posting as having no experience........Going to listen to my system with the lights off, surely will make it sound better....
