But let someone come along
with the evidently unorthodox view that audio system sound can be
similarly
evaluated -- without recourse to "data" -- and suddenly people go all
sarcastic.
Bah, indeed. To straw-man arguments
I can tell the difference, but then I've
had my palate educated.
Someone locally here once told me he'd done a DBT that proved to the
99%
confidence level, that insertion of the ABX box was audible. I
chuckled, as
I might hope everyone would.
The placebo effect has a reverse aspect too. People who believe
something *won't* work, can fail to hear it when it does, for that
reason.