It's not ballsy at all. You left yourself completely open to psychological bias.
And you ignored the rest of my post.
My hearing has nothing to do with psychology or bias - I was completely neutral about the chips involved in the test.
Due to your attitude I will post no further details about how the tests were done and this discussion stops here.
The rest of your post was just irrelevant - do not flatter yourself that everything that you post gets quoted.
Your attitude when you entered this discussion wasnt much better.
As for your listening - you focus slightly differently every time you listen to something, and notice different things. The fact you had to actually power off every time you switch opamps makes it even harder to compare properly. You think you hear a change the first time and that lets the bias/placebo/psychological effects take hold. Measurements are king here - if they don't measure noticeably different you're extremely unlikely to actually be able to hear a difference.
I listened to the same philharmonic orchestra playing the same movement about a year apart when the standard tuning of instruments were A=443Hz and then at A=440 Hz the tempo everything else remained the same. I could not tell the music apart at all. You could give me a million bucks if I got it right and I would remain poor even after many tries.
My question is are we not splitting hairs really with now conclusive outcome, You hear what you hear, yes you can focus and tune into something specific but thta as good as it get.
My question is are we not splitting hairs really with now conclusive outcome, You hear what you hear, yes you can focus and tune into something specific but thta as good as it get.