Blindfold testing is not a good way of testing. You need set up a room with a transparent screen with appropriate lighting so you can’t see the speaker behind it. Take your recordings of say piano, human voice, drums etc and pick the most accurate for lows mids and highs and I doubt you will find a complete speaker. Always compromises.
If you go into a room with something covering your eyes the brain reacts differently so in turn affects your mood and hearing.
Also, I don’t like blind tests. Best to set up gear like say if you want to test for cable differences you ask the subject how you like your music ( with say Nordost Odin). Listen as long as you want. Ask the person to leave and have a quick drink of of water outside where your accomplice switches out the cable (that you can’t see) to Belden. Later come back in and listen to same music selection again to see if the person says anything. If they say sounds great then little to no differences. But if they say doesn’t sound the same something is not quite right then you have your answer. Don’t buy into BS you have to do quick switching. For example if you are trained in playing piano and if it’s off key or tempo, timbre is off or something is different you will spot it like that. That’s why when auditioning you bring your own music. And if you can’t hear anything different then the $10k interconnect has little to no difference. Enjoy ☺️
If you go into a room with something covering your eyes the brain reacts differently so in turn affects your mood and hearing.
Also, I don’t like blind tests. Best to set up gear like say if you want to test for cable differences you ask the subject how you like your music ( with say Nordost Odin). Listen as long as you want. Ask the person to leave and have a quick drink of of water outside where your accomplice switches out the cable (that you can’t see) to Belden. Later come back in and listen to same music selection again to see if the person says anything. If they say sounds great then little to no differences. But if they say doesn’t sound the same something is not quite right then you have your answer. Don’t buy into BS you have to do quick switching. For example if you are trained in playing piano and if it’s off key or tempo, timbre is off or something is different you will spot it like that. That’s why when auditioning you bring your own music. And if you can’t hear anything different then the $10k interconnect has little to no difference. Enjoy ☺️