Re: setting up ABX tests at home

"Greg Wormald" <greg.wormald@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> The very set-up of much ABX testing (which is most often
> short segments of music quickly switched), cannot test
> for what most music lovers are seeking--long term
> enjoyment of music listening.

This is a false claim that I've heard on and off for about 30 years, now.

In fact people have been doing long term ABX tests for about 30 years. 
The 
origional ABX Comparator product, had special features to allow tests to 
survive power outages, in sup****t of long term tests.

One of the things that long term ABX tests show is that audiophile
mythology 
about long term testing is just that, audiophile mythology.

> A goodly number of years
> ago I ABX blind tested some interconnects, and then chose
> the ones I preferred. Three months later I realised I was
> not listening as much or enjoying it at the level I was
> previously. I found myself turning the music down or off.
> When I went back to my old interconnects my listening
> increased to it's previous levels of enjoyment.

AFAIK nobody has ever shown that interconnects can be distinguished 
sonically using any reliable listening test methodology, unless they were
so 
bad that they cause non-trival frequency response variations. And, if 
interconnects are so bad that they cause non-trivial frequency response 
variations, they are by definition, defective.