Mozartfan, I love the idea! My understanding is that Revel does something similar at their headquarters in California. However, I would recommend the following: ditch the curtain idea and actually blindfold all of the seasoned audiophile judges involved; have them all submit to audiological testing to control for hearing acuity; control for the sweet spot and vary that to test for off-axis performance of all of the speakers involved and hire a pit crew that can change those speakers out as fast as an Indianapolis 500 pit crew can change tires on those Indy cars. That would offer a bit better control or objectivity. However, there is still the factor of controlling for best component matching and room acoustics variables. The only way I can think of, of going about something like that would be to do all of the above and, then, put the judges on some sort of moveable floor that can be transported from optimized system & room to another. Now, how would you control for individual music preferences? Different strokes for different folks. Variety is the spice of life!
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
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