Unfortunate thing with this kind of approach is that it means nothing to anybody except to the one doing it.
There was a thread Talk but not walk some time ago. It was a place to say and claim anything. From Kim Jong Un to geometry of wings on the plane to amplifiers and to anything else you could imagine.
Michael Green claimed that amplifiers sound significantly better without the cover. The premise was that people only talk, but never try so whatever they say is worthless. I pulled an older NAD C-350 out of the box and took the cover off. Nothing. It was all the same. I did it for a while, but nothing changed. I reported that result and got blasted for doing it. Apparently, doing it was not enough. It just showed how I did not know what I was doing despite me taking the cover off as mentioned in the thread. All of a sudden, taking the cover off was called "barely scratching the surface". I was to cut some plastic ties inside the amplifier so orchestra will spread on the stage and similar claims. I did not do it, my room could barely fit that orchestra in their snugly positions, as destroying a perfectly functioning amplifier just to potentially read it was not enough did not appeal to me. There could have been more and more that would be needed to prove how taking the cover off an amplifier improves the sound.
In short, by doing the experiment and reporting results, I was told my findings were worthless. Granted, it was not a single, much less double, blind study but if the only way to discern the difference was to spend hours under sterile condition it was not worth the effort. That is when I realized who talks and who walks.
Don’t even start me on piano keys and pressure in the room.
There was a thread Talk but not walk some time ago. It was a place to say and claim anything. From Kim Jong Un to geometry of wings on the plane to amplifiers and to anything else you could imagine.
Michael Green claimed that amplifiers sound significantly better without the cover. The premise was that people only talk, but never try so whatever they say is worthless. I pulled an older NAD C-350 out of the box and took the cover off. Nothing. It was all the same. I did it for a while, but nothing changed. I reported that result and got blasted for doing it. Apparently, doing it was not enough. It just showed how I did not know what I was doing despite me taking the cover off as mentioned in the thread. All of a sudden, taking the cover off was called "barely scratching the surface". I was to cut some plastic ties inside the amplifier so orchestra will spread on the stage and similar claims. I did not do it, my room could barely fit that orchestra in their snugly positions, as destroying a perfectly functioning amplifier just to potentially read it was not enough did not appeal to me. There could have been more and more that would be needed to prove how taking the cover off an amplifier improves the sound.
In short, by doing the experiment and reporting results, I was told my findings were worthless. Granted, it was not a single, much less double, blind study but if the only way to discern the difference was to spend hours under sterile condition it was not worth the effort. That is when I realized who talks and who walks.
Don’t even start me on piano keys and pressure in the room.