What do people who disagree with the test say?
Some objections that have been raised about the test: Richard Clark has a strong opinion on this issue and therefore might bias his reports. In the real world people use amps in the clipping zone, and the test does not cover that situation. Some audible artifacts are undetectable individually, but when combined with other artifacts they may become audible as a whole. For instance cutting a single graphic EQ level by one db may not be audible, but cutting lots of different EQ levels by the same amount may be audible. Maybe the amps have defects that are only audible when combined with the defects from a particular source, speaker, or system. Some listeners feel that they can’t relax enough to notice subtle differences when they have to make a large number of choices such as in this test. There is a lack of organized results. Richard Clark only reports his general impressions of the results, but did not keep track of all the scores. He does not know exactly how many people have taken the
