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Krueger, you will not succeed in sidetracking your lack of evidence
that your test is worth a penny for showing differences between audio
components by:
1) hoping that I'll begin to exchange with you niceties about "paranoid
hysteria". It does sound sort of desperate, almost paranoid, almost
hysterical doesn't it.?
2) flying off at a tangent into gossip about. "perceptual coding
techniques" such as AAC and MP3". I don't care and I don't want to know
abt. these or the craters on Jupiter. This is about audio components.
*You* can have MP3. You deserve each other.
3) emitting a lovely scientific assertion: "This is obvious". As
obvious as the flatness of the earth?
I suggest you ponder what a real researcher Sean Olive said to your
clown-prince last November:
" I rarely ask listeners the question "Is A different than B"?" In
most cases, the differences between the loudspeakers
under test are
measurable (both objective and subjective)and therefore
the more interesting
question for me is "Which speaker do they prefer, by how
much, and why?" "
And he did not use ABXing in his loudspeaker comparison test.

He said why Ludovic. Whether they sound different or not was not in
question. So the obvious next question which he had moved on to...was
preference. Which one sounded better and why?

This has no bearing on the validity of ABX to determine if things sound
different.
The illogic of your argument is too obvious and makes your credibility
suspect.

ScottW