"Blind tests" can go to hell. Sick to death of the spectre of the blind test, the ABX, in audio. Sick of it and all the convenient ways it can be invalidated by liars. 24 years of listening, reading, to audiophile shills talking about how people in the next room could hear the difference, and then furrow their brows as if suddenly burdened by the weight of their commitment to fairness and integrity, "oh, but an ABX introduces too much, stress...stress, unnatural listening conditions, blah, blah, blah". Utter sophistry! I chopped the head off that pantomime, I do not care if you hear a difference, I wan't to know if there is one, stop hiding behind absurd rhetorical constructs, physcological get-outs, stop lying, stop contaminating a hobby with F.U.D. BS so you can sell your crap. Rememering how h**d-fi utterly fell to the endless shills and commercial interests, banishing any kind of meaningful conversation to a single sub-forum - and banning it from all others, and, literally, manufacturers posing as unrelated parties to their enterprise to bash people, selling fake products, I could post their names, I won't, but if you know, you know...and on and on. In what a ruinous state - an awful intersection of people seeking advice, and people eagre to lie to them - the internet found itself.
Sorry for the rant, but thank god for Amir and his AP analyser machine, and others, I know ASR is not without commercial considerations (madronadigital? etc), but it's pretty good.
