Blind listening comparisons

[GregLee]

Dr. Olive also makes erroneous assumptions which invalidate the data if you really care about sound reproduction. Their tests cater to the lowest common denominator of listener and he thinks that speaker placement is irrelevant to performance.

Does he really think that placement is irrelevant? It's hard for me to believe. Maybe you could give us a reference to substantiate this? I read the link you gave, and there seems to be no relevance to what you've said here.

[E-Stat]

Does he really think that placement is irrelevant? It's hard for me to believe. Maybe you could give us a reference to substantiate this? I read the link you gave, and there seems to be no relevance to what you've said here.

Ok, I guess I need to help you read his comments.

"I'm not sure what you mean that the speaker shuffler, listening room, amps and cables have to be adjusted to compensate for a particular type of speaker such as dipole. Wouldn't that be a rather biased test if each loudspeaker required a unique cable, position and amplifier to sound good?"

Yes Sean, one does have to compensate for the type of speaker when considering optimum speaker placement. Would it be a biased test to compare speakers in their optimum positions? Huh? What are you smoking?

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