Quote Originally Posted by 46minaudio
If thats what you have to tell yourself RGA.LMAO You really ought to try some level matched blind testing before spouting off.Oops my bad you dont need to for you are RGA God of all audio.
Yes you would get a much better system if you listened to your audio God - ME. LOL.

I have done Single Blind(and the tester was not present), of numerous items. And a successful variation of them, with headphones for cd players, and once with speakers.

With amplifiers I had the luxury of doing them with my speakers in my home. These were not fill in a form test protocol of course...but then it was for my own purchasing decision not to prove something to someone else. As the years have gone by and I have taken various science courses and gone in Psychology I have a pretty good understanding of Double Blind testing and their validity as it relates to "real world" listening. I have thought there was a nIght and day difference. Done a test which I proceeded not to pass statistically, then knowing this, went back and listened sighted without the "testing environment imposed" and still had the same opinion as I did before the test. And since we live in the real world and we don't normally listen in a testing envoironment - and since the two are not 100% directly correlational, then I'm going with the normal environment...current brain research supports this as well. If ten people in a room all say they think a Sony is brighter than the Pioneer, and in the test that is not found...the test does not match the observation...and it should. The first part of the test is not looked at by most.

You can pick your scientists OR engineers to follow since they don't agree on methodology and conclusion of the testing...the debates go no where.