Check out this link: Audio Musings by Sean Olive: The Dishonesty of Sighted Listening Tests
I'm going out on a limb and suggesting that blind listening tests (when buying audio equipment) are unnecessary. It might even distort the reality you experience because our auditory memory is so short...
Hello to anyone who this may concern,
This is thread #1 for me on whatsbestforum.
I have reached a point in my systems where I already have following in spades:
--> Holographic midrange and instrumentals
--> Realistic imaging (sense of space and locale)
--> Treble resolution and brilliance...
Words are useful only to the extent they help us distinguish certain things from other things. In this hobby, which generally is subjective listening oriented and thus usually not quantitative or scientific oriented, we typically use words, and not numbers, to express our subjective views...