On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:56:56 -0000
"Wally" wrote:

With something as subjective as the perception of sound, non-blind
tests are inherently unreliable.

Bull****.

I suspect what you meant to say was that a non-blind test isnt necessarily invalid in terms of testing gross changes ;-)

For tiny changes on the threshold of perception, you must use blind testing.

In your case it was 'crap DVD player' vs 'decent DAC' which isnt exactly a subtle difference ;-)

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