The use of the scientific method and audio science as a sword in our debates is tiresome and useless. I do not share many of Frank ideas, but appreciate his arguments and his passion for audio - it is why many of us read WBF. As we are grown up adults, we do not risk of being corrupted by his sayings. His language is not scientific, and he writes in a free way what he feels. We decode and interpret it!
And the denial and dismissal of any science, no matter how well established, when it fails to support our beliefs, is tiresome and ignorant, at best. In this case, Frank has not simply denied it, he has acted as if it does not exist and stated the exact opposite of the truth...
Rapid switching is never going to tell anything worthwhile with audio, unless there are extreme differences ...
...as if it were an indisputable fact. It would be laughable if it weren't so common in this hobby. Are we "grown up adults" who will not be corrupted by what he says? Hardly. Many of us believe this particular lie, and many other falsehoods that tell us what we want to hear. We perform logical gymnastics to believe them against all the evidence.
The "sword" of science may be tiresome in these debates, but the truth is essential in the pursuit of fidelity.
Tim