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Blindfold Speaker testing

So if we made a  experiment where a  group of seasoned audiophiles had to choose  which speaker is best over all, 
6 brands all hidden behinda  curtain.
5 top dawgs in the xover box low sens design and 1 of the high sens PS design. How do you think the results will come out?
But we will not tell the group what speakers are behind the curtains, They will have no idea 1 of the speakers is Point Source. 
How do you think the, or lets say which 1 speaker do you think would come out on top?
No lets do this, Lets give the  group a  list of 5 speaker brands, Walsh, Wilson, Tannoy, and 2 others which are very popular, like Joseph with the Seas. 
and 1 more,
The mystery speaker is not listed, so they have no idea what speaker it is.
The ? speaker is the high sens Point Source.
Now Richard Gray hosts this *guess which speaker event* as he is a  master of these types of gimmicks and  has seasoned audiophiles fooled every single time.
Which speaker do you think will make top of the list in results??
I know.
The Mystery Speaker.
Then Richard pulls the curtain and reveals the winner.
 SURPRISEE
Got ya
The Hifi Guy


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larryi
3,780 posts
 
murphythecat,

YES! Using youtube to judge anything except, perhaps, appearance makes no sense at all.  On top of that, making any kind of universal judgment based on anything less than extensive personal experience is also nonsense. 

I agree with you that most wide range drivers are best used in multi-way systems.  Such systems, done right, will retain the immediacy and great presence in the midrange while sounding fuller, smoother and more refined than most single driver systems.  I think having the crossovers come into play well outside the heart of the midrange is a big help.
larryi
3,780 posts
 
The idea of a true blind test is just a hypothetical; it is not something that could be implemented for gleaning any meaningful information.  Just on speaker setup alone, it takes MANY hours just to set up one pair of speakers, and movement of just an inch or two can result in major changes in sound (if one is moving into or out of a node).  There really can be only one pair sitting in an "ideal" spot.  Also,  speakers interact with each other so that the sound of one pair in a room is quite different from that with many other pairs in the room.  There are a host of other issues that make this sort of comparison problematic.  

Since you believe that one can make comparisons by viewing youtube videos, why don't you do videos (dark of course, so their is no image) with each speaker set up ideally in the same room?  That way each viewer can spend as much time on each blind video as the listener want to hear and the listener can make a choice when comfortable with his or her judgment.  You can then compile the results of preferences.  That way we will have some sort of valid information--which speaker sounds best when heard as a crappy youtube video.  
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