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RE: Emotion

Sorry, I keep doing this, that is confuse people with my wonky irony!

I think that emotion stems from the music itself and not the quality of the equipment we hear it on. I have been moved to tears by some piece of music played on a table top radio or in the car and bored to tears by "audiophile" recordings played on high-end systems in shops and at shows.

What exactly do you mean by "un-measurable"?

I think that very little cannot be evaluated in a quantifiable manner.

There are basically two ways of going at it for audio equipment:

1) you measure with a calibrated instrument,

2) you use properly set-up panels of humans with valid tests and get results that are quantified.

Qualitative analysis is something you do until you have a proper system allowing you to turn it into quantitative data.

Subjective audiophiles believe in the superior acuity of the human ear over the accuracy of proper measuring instruments, saying that instruments can never duplicate the wholeness of human hearing and, when confronted with the use of human subjects to evaluate a system or components, immediately proceed to say that no such endeavour can can work as "we all hear differently".

Not much room left for discovery and discussion there right?

So, at this stage, we are all victims of the Sea Cliff school of audio reproduction holding that reproduction of music is one of life's greatest mysteries.

Audio is now mostly a faith based avocation.



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