Hey SIY, are you another retired audio enthusiast following this morbidly fascinating compulsive display of classic Duning-Kruger type ignorance combined with a profound unwillingness to learn about the science and technology involved?
This thread contains some of the most idiotic and illogical claims about audio that I have ever seen. It's hard to believe that someone thinks that something that has not been proven to be audible in proper double blind testing - nor observed in the measurements in the frequency range of human hearing - can be very clearly heard by them in subjective, non-level matched sighted listening.
There seems to be an absolute rejection of the repeatedly proven fallibility of sighted listening and the necessity for proper level matching in any listening comparisons. The claim that some people have "no choice except to trust their ears [in sighted and uncontrolled listening sessions]" is patently untrue. Any reasonably intellegent and informed person, with only a bit of technical skills, can at least attempt to perform single blind, properly level matched listening. Those who refuse to do so likely fear that the results will not support the BS they have been spouting.
And now, the science and engineering folks here at ASR from Amir on down are being accused of lying?
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