Re: setting up ABX tests at home

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:29:55 -0800, bear wrote
(in article <fp9jtj01hl6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> Sonnova wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:46:29 -0800, bear wrote
>> (in article <fp588l01ah1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> .
>>> 
>>> This is basic, no?
>> 
>> It's also simple. Take any system, take one component in that system 
and 
>> switch it for another of the same type and listen for differences. Test

>> conditions are known because the only thing changed from one component
to 
>> the 
>> next is the component under test.  All else is the same for both.  
> 
> You fail to comprehend that if the system under test happens to have 
> distortion 
> components that "mask" then the test is certainly valid for the system,
but 
> not 
> to any other system any place else.
> 
> You have possibly learned absolutely nothing about the components you
think 
> you 
> are testing.
> 
> Simple.

I understand what you are getting at now, finally. I concur.