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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: A-B CD comments
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 11:19:14 EST
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Well, I haven't been reading this part of nutnews for a while,
but since I've been getting mail about the A-B test that involved
my CD player (gasp, yes, JJ has one of those heathen devices),
I figured that I should at least read the comments on the test.

	I've seen several humorous comments (why is it that some
people can't recognize humor when they see it?  Kudos to the
Bavarian Beagle for making the humor clear.. or will someone
take THAT seriously, too?) and two comments about
the speakers that were used.  Neither of the speaker commentators
bothered to notice that headphones were also used, and both
saw fit to behave as though they were the one and only guardians of
the truth.  Nobody in the review claimed that the test was conclusive,
in fact, the conditions were carefully explained so that people
could draw their own conclusions, and get some idea of the minimum
sensitivity necessary to hear a difference.  (Face it, the system
described is't audiophile, but it's much, much better than 98% (or more)
of systems "installed", so there IS useful information contained.)
(No, I don't own Bose speakers.)

	Hedley... Your comments seem to indiciate that your
speakers are good enough for the test.  Care to explain why?
(Or were you really being sarcastic?  If so, it seems to me that
the sarcasm was not obvious enough, given the attitudes in 
nut.audio, where superstition masquerades as fact, and physical
fact as superstition, experience only counts if you don't have
an education in acoustics, and being a researcher in the field of
audio means that you are automatically wrong.)

	That's why I don't contribute to nut.audio anymore.

'nuff said?
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