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Who cares, so long as they don't make dubious claims about audio from sighted comparison?
Well, I guess it depends how interested one is in blind testing, on a site in which it is constantly invoked.
I don't think anyone has to do blind testing. But even the site's proprietor promotes the idea doing blind tests is a good education, in terms of having the actual experience, for an audiophile. He walks the walk having done many blind tests himself.
Also, depending on how you view blind tests, it could be seen as a way of contributing something more rigorous than opinions to the site.
Again...you are right. You don't have to care about blind tests.
Be aware of the caveats that sighted perception of sound quality necessitates. Adjust your claims/observational reports accordingly. It's not that hard to do.
I agree that is a reasonable approach. But if we are talking about making claims in a public forum, it's not always that easy because you then have the problem of what other people will accept as a "properly scaled" observational report. There is disagreement, for instance, as to how confident one should be in drawing conclusions when comparing even speakers in sighted conditions. It goes in to the "you can't please everyone" category.
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