Moode 6 sound quality

[Miss Sissy Princess]

You first said that people will hear an improvement when they expect one. 

I said that people tend to hear a difference when they expect one:

Most audiophiles will be convinced that they hear a difference between two amps even if the person conducting the experiment just pretended to switch amps.  That's expectation bias.  It's why it's so important to follow the scientific method.  We're all prone to hearing differences if we are convinced that something has changed.

You then asked the following:

And what do you say when there is a expectation prior to listening that a change will sound _worse_ but after careful listening the evaluation is that the change improved the sound quality?

To which I answered:

When the brain can't confirm an expected degradation, then it often imagines an improvement -- even when there is no sonic difference whatsoever.

I will be charitable and say that you apparently misread what I wrote.

So what's left? Will people also hear an improvement when they expect no difference at all?

That covers all cases I guess.  People will always here an improvement with a change.

That was you making up something I never said, attributing it to me, and extrapolating a conclusion from it that you could ridicule.

And I will let you have the last word...

I'm not trying to have the last word -- just an intellectually honest debate.