Onma
New Head-Fier
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Thank you for your time! I think a simple test would be as follows:
Your friend brings a few random sources of decent quality (laptops, smart phones, headphone amps) and a sound level meter to first normalize volume between sources. The less details you know about the sources beforehand (especially their price range), the better.
Then just pick your favorite song(s), and start comparing sources (which are named A, B, C...) making notes as your friend changes the source when you wish ("OK, give me source X now"). Continue until you can do some kind of ranking between the sources or at least have found your favorite one.
If differences are not found, you could try repeating the test with a lower/higher volume across the sources.
If you include sources in the test which you already own, there's a great risk that if you manage to identify those sources ("Ha! Source C is clearly my Valhalla!") during the test, you will retain a certain fondness for them which can lead to biased results as you make the familiar source your reference which all the other sources will be compared against.
Your friend brings a few random sources of decent quality (laptops, smart phones, headphone amps) and a sound level meter to first normalize volume between sources. The less details you know about the sources beforehand (especially their price range), the better.
Then just pick your favorite song(s), and start comparing sources (which are named A, B, C...) making notes as your friend changes the source when you wish ("OK, give me source X now"). Continue until you can do some kind of ranking between the sources or at least have found your favorite one.
If differences are not found, you could try repeating the test with a lower/higher volume across the sources.
If you include sources in the test which you already own, there's a great risk that if you manage to identify those sources ("Ha! Source C is clearly my Valhalla!") during the test, you will retain a certain fondness for them which can lead to biased results as you make the familiar source your reference which all the other sources will be compared against.