Blindfold tests?

[JazzDaddyD]

Is anyone aware of really well-controlled blindfold tests on arch tops? Where people with great big ears listen to well set-up guitars with the same strings, played the same way, through the same amp(s), in the same room? Of course the sound is but one of the valuable characteristics of a guitar, but most of the others can be subjectively measured.

For example, a blindfold test of 5 L5's of different years? Or better yet 5 L5s from the same year? Or 5 ES 175s, some with P90s and some with buckers? Or 17" guitars from Campellone, Andersen, Collings, Thorell, Holst, etc?

I don't live in a place where I can play good arch tops all in the same day. Or the same week (I drive slow).
Thanks!

[Oscar67]

Nope. Not with archtops, as far as I know. There are such videos for other gear.

[medblues]

Makis Ablianitis plays same arrangement of "Fly Me To The Moon" with 11 different archtops (go to videos from 10 years ago on his page or search for Hofner). Have someone blindfold you and listen to them.

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[ThatRhythmMan]

If you’re interested in videos comparing archtops, there are lots of them on YouTube. They aren’t typically blinded though.


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[omphalopsychos]

Blindfold tests don’t tell you anything about how these guitars feel and frequently they are close miced and processed in a way that gives no impression of how they sound in the room.