Quote Originally Posted by ruadmaa
My speakers are excellent, thank you. Extensive listening tests were done by both Julian Hirsh of Hirsh/Houck Labs and also Ian G. Masters regarding the sound of amps. Neither of these professionals or the people doing the listening tests could detect any difference between the sound of numerous amps tested.....
But I am convinced that I can hear differences. That was certainly the case when I compared my NAD C270 against Monarchy SP70 and Bel Canto eVo2i; (I bought the latter). And I didn't need Scintillas to do it either, just humble Magneplanar MMGs.

More recently I compared the Bel Canto against my Panasonic SA-XR25 receiver. The latter was highly tauted around here by some people but was distinctly inferior to the Bel.

And for the latter comparison case I used only my Paradigm MiniMonitors. ruadmaa, you Speakerlabs are up to the job if you will take the time to listen.

As for Julian Hirsch and Ian Masters, nobody doubts their credentials as engineers but a lot of people dismiss them as audiophiles. It's said of Hirsch that "he never heard a component he didn't like". Because a test is legitimately DBT doesn't mean that its definitive: in any case, while a DBT can prove the differences do exist, but it cannot prove that they don't exist.