I’m confused. Are you saying this WASN’T the ideal outcome?
Expectation bias is real. That said I don't see where it comes in if the device in question has been bought, paid for and lived with.I see expectation bias as a subconscious thought process that allows us to pre-judge the merits of something novel. That's not the same as gullibility. It's just worth being aware that when most of us see a beautiful & expensive piece of audio gear we are naturally predisposed to believe that it will perform better than a less expensive pedestrian-looking device. That bias can trick us into believing that we're hearing audible improvements that don't actually exist. Of course that beautiful & expensive piece of audio gear may well provide real audible improvements, but we shouldn't pre-judge an outcome, even subconsciously, going into a test.
Objectivists are skeptical of sighted listening tests because we know from experience that expectation bias can lead us to draw false conclusions about the device under test. Many may prefer the sound of a beautiful high-end speaker cable over a generic of equivalent AWG when we can see what we're listening to, for example. Listening test results can be quite different when we're denied that knowledge via ABX or double-blind testing however...
I can state with pride, however, that I never fell for the quantum dot thing (preens self).
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