Quote Originally Posted by Monstrous Mike
I didn't say that personal accounts don't hold weight. What I am saying is that if you take 100 personal accounts, a certain percentage will be accurate, a certain percentage will be close, a certain percentage will be off a little, and a certain percentage will be right out to lunch.

What these percentages are is anybody's guess. But if you give me a personal account I have no way of knowing which category you fall into so I can't take your personal account to heart. I would expect that you feel the same way about me although when most people learn I have not heard differences in wires they automatically put me in the "out to lunch" category.



I know a lot of you feel this way. We would all like to think we approach our in home testing with a completely objective frame of mind. However, it has been conclusively shown that there are many factors that we are not conciously aware of that can influence us. That doesn't mean you can't accurately assess anything in your audio system, just that there are pitfalls that could manifest themselves without you even knowing it.
"We would all like to think we approach our in home testing with a completely objective frame of mind. "

Make that "all" minus one.

I could care less if I approach home "testing" with an objective mind. The only "testing" I'm doing is what brings me pleasure. If I were focused on whether I'm "objective" or not, the pleasure would be gone. Anything that gets in the way of pleasure in my soundroom is strickly forbidden in accordance with a scrupulously enforced zero tolereance policy.