Double blind testing
Dear Gene,
Although i applaud, and largely agree with, your arguments on DBT, i have to disagree it has no (or 'little') place in audio. Especially the snake-oil and science fiction you so boldly fight, can easily be retributed by double blind testing. Not in loudspeaker evaluation obviously, as you comprehensively point out, but for identifying bogus cable-, amp-, dac-, dsp-, rew-, drc-, connector-, electronics components-, etc.etc.- claims, DBT is THE MOST EFFECTIVE MYTH BUSTER. Are those components better? Well, prove to me you even hear a difference by identifying 'em in a DB listening-T, would you please? So for proving true negatives in almost all component-comparisons except speakers, i would think DBT-ing is extremely useful. Am i being impertinent, my dear master audioholic?