Quote Originally Posted by tube fan
Trust me, if you think "real wine connoisseurs" could consistently (much less ALWAYS) pick out the expensive wine, you are, let's be polite, A TOTAL FOOL!!! If you pick the expensive audio component, great! But don't be so sure sure you would!
Perhaps my wording is not clear, so let's see if a rephrase helps:

Real wine connoisseurs could consistently identify the more expensive wines... Now whether they always prefer them is another issue...

The point is not that you must prefer the more expensive wine or audio equipment but that you'd be able to identify it...

Now let's take you as an example: Why don't you trust yourself to audition sighted? Do you find that you pick different products when you can see the brands versus when you can't? The fact that you believe cheaper gear can sound better than more expensive ones, suggest you are probably not as prone to sighted bias as you believe... Perhaps if you trusted yourself more, you'd pick the same gear (whether cheaper or more expensive) in a sighted test as you would in a blind one...

Note: "TOTAL FOOL" can never be polite (though it is a funny insult), however if you want to avoid having posts edited by Mods and what comes after that I'd suggest not handing out insults to other forum members... Insults never aid a discussion...