Re: setting up ABX tests at home

"bear" <bearlabs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.

In fact, the most common source of masking is the music itself. By that, I

mean the acoustical sounds that musical instruments make when a musician 
plays them.