Craig, what's the story behind the comment you made on the 301s?
It's the worst speaker I've ever heard! Even the Realistic Nova 6 is better. I'd rather listen to my plastic Sonys under water than the 301s
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This is what makes blind tests so informative. One would think that every listener would easily pick another speaker over the 301 ... but what about those who possibly don't?
A couple nights ago, a friend of mine did an impromptu "blind" wine tasting test on a few of us. Two glasses for all of us. We all like both wines, until he showed us "the box". One of the guys was disgusted, and started back peddling on the box wine - saying he didn't like it (but he did earlier). I thought it was hilarious. I went out and bought a few boxes. The other wine was a $125 Napa Cab Sav. The box was from Costco - Botabox.
Blind testing is fun. I'd love to try it with speakers.
This is about the most accurate and funny quote about blind testing.
Many people, even after the blind test, go back to his/her biases, regardless the results. This also happens with loudspeakers - a guy will start claiming after the test is done why his own results were tainted by the test. Now that he can see the speakers, he knows which are the better pair. It's always amusing.
