MattHooper
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He did also find that people could prefer a different speaker when listening blind to what speaker they preferred when listening sighted.
Which is really quite scary when you think about it.
Trouble is the practical implementation is almost non-existent. We can't easily do blind testing when choosing a speaker, and we'll listen sighted in normal use, with the bias intact.
So back to using the measurements to choose.
The problem there, as I have brought up before, is the conundrum implied by all of the above.
The measurement criteria was derived under blind listening conditions, but you will be listening under sighted conditions.
If sighted listening is by nature so unreliable, how are the measurements going to help predict your experience listening sighted to your loudspeakers?
Either the measurements will help predict what you will perceive under sighted listening or they will not.
If not, what use are they?
But if so, it suggests that sighted listening can be usefully accurate. (that under sighted conditions in your home you will accurately perceive the characteristics that made those speakers sound good under blind conditions.).
But we’ve been down this road before…