Neil McCauley
23-10-2008, 14:58
Originally, but not from me:
"With regards to evaluating equipment and cables, it's like Ali says, the *only* way to do it properly is to install 'X' new component or cable and live with it for a week, then swap back to your old stuff and if it instantly sounds worse then you know you've obtained a genuine improvement, and conversely the reverse applies."
Correct again. I and some others like me offer a 28 day evaluation period to facilitate this.
"Quick-fire A/B comparisons are next to useless as almost always (unless something is really bad) a different, often more 'impressive' sound, is psychologically considered as better when in reality in the long term in many cases it isn't. Blind testing is just a joke because your head isn't in the right 'zone'."
Err ... it's deja vu all over again. Didn't you take a look here? http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1229
Regards
HP (the man wot posts under his own name)
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"With regards to evaluating equipment and cables, it's like Ali says, the *only* way to do it properly is to install 'X' new component or cable and live with it for a week, then swap back to your old stuff and if it instantly sounds worse then you know you've obtained a genuine improvement, and conversely the reverse applies."
Correct again. I and some others like me offer a 28 day evaluation period to facilitate this.
"Quick-fire A/B comparisons are next to useless as almost always (unless something is really bad) a different, often more 'impressive' sound, is psychologically considered as better when in reality in the long term in many cases it isn't. Blind testing is just a joke because your head isn't in the right 'zone'."
Err ... it's deja vu all over again. Didn't you take a look here? http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1229
Regards
HP (the man wot posts under his own name)
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