In Reply to: Do measurements matter? - linked article posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne on January 23, 2015 at 15:39:56:
This from the article I posted earlier, and was hopping more people would be interested:
"The complications and controversy stem from the fact that music is played to be heard by human beings, whose nonlinear ear-brain hearing systems are far from fully understood. Since no one knows exactly how to model the human auditory system, no one knows exactly what engineering measurements are appropriate to evaluating the performance of audio equipment. A smidgen of some kinds of distortion may sound worse to the ear than larger amounts of other kinds. So ultimately, the only way to judge audio equipment is by listening to it. Hence the controversy: subjective human perception—especially when flanked by questions of artistic merit—is made to order for arguments and disputation."
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Follow Ups
- RE: Do measurements matter? - linked article - Eldragon 16:00:47 01/23/15 (2)
- Agreed, listening is the final arbiter, but ... - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 16:32:44 01/23/15 (1)
- RE: Agreed, listening is the final arbiter, but ... - Eldragon 05:41:57 01/24/15 (0)