Thus spake Don Pearce:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:55:54 -0000, "Paul B" wrote:

What I'm suggesting is that anyone is going to get fairly confused
listening to the same piece of music to be able to distinguish
between any 2 cables. If the same person cannot distinguish runs
with the same cable but with a fair degree of
inductance/resistance/capacitance added, I would speculate (rightly
or wrongly) that a low score with just different cables *as well*,
points to the test method being unsatisfactory on its own.

They clearly aren't going to get confused, because they report that
they can distinguish the cables by listening to the same piece of
music. You are still failing to appreciate the point of the whole
thing - it is not an attempt to find out if it is possible to hear the
differences between two cables, which could lead to such confusion. It
is an attempt to verify whether *already reported* differences do in
fact have a physical manifestation, or are simply delusional. If they
are real, the effect will persist under blind conditions.

Of course if they do find it at all confusing to keep listening to the
same piece of music, they are perfectly free to put on another piece -
and another, and another and another until they are happy.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com


Bit more awake today! I was thinking more in gereral testing terms than
commenting on your specific protocol.

As for confusion, I have been in situations where I've played a piece of
music more than once & concluded that I couldn't really tell if the they
sounded the *same* or not when of course I knew they were identical. The
same idea but from the opposite direction if you will.