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Post Subject: The importance of A/B comparisonsPosted by drdna on: 8/23/2019
 clarkjohnsen wrote: |
| the righteous immediacy of short-term auditions needn’t be dismissed |
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I personally have not found prolonged listening mandatory at all times, but when I listen in A/B comparisons I have objective goals in mind. Most of the time, new equipment does not sound better to my ears. There are differences in both additive and subtractive distortions. The precaution we must all take is not to be enchanted by some additive distortion which sounds "new and exciting" -- this is the primary reason that listeners (and myself in the past) initially like some new piece of equipment and then with extended listening lose interest.
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