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Originally posted by bestbang4thebuck:

To really have a fair A-B (or A-B-C-etc.) comparison, one has to have an equivalent run and environment for each cable, be able to switch between cables rather quickly (about 1 second?) and have the listeners blind to which set of cables are being used at a given moment. Then one needs to run through a long pseudo-random, but carefully planned, series of selections between the cables being compared and see if a particular set is ranked consistently better or worse than another.
BB4TB:

Good point however, there are people who will dislike you for pointing out things like the proper A/B test procedure. I sure am not the one but there are number of people who will argue against you by questioning things like how well the equipments were set up or room acoustics and how good the speakers were and …etc. If they find out which speakers were used they’ll blame on that or try to find excuse to discredit the result by nitpicking on bunch of things. Basically there isn’t much anyone can do to people like that to change their mind which makes me want to ask this question. Is there a terminology to describe people like that? I mean in some sort of audio term.