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In Reply to: They do matter but only when they correlate with subjective results posted by morricab on January 25, 2015 at 09:07:05:
Great summary!
Of course a set of links would REALLY make it easy for us lazy folks. But I have read at least many of them at some time or another and likely can find em' again.
I know there are quite a few of us on this forum that used to design electronics for a living or otherwise have an involvement beyond just being a user and we still find home audio fascinating in retirement. For me the discernment of our hearing (especially the WSP) is a big part of the fascination. That's Wet Signal Processing.
I am thus not troubled by our current "Technical Difficulties", indeed they add a great deal of interest. The saving grace is that the system I have seems accurate and satisfying (to me) so there is no stress involved in just playing around since further improvements are likely but not essential. That to me is about as good as it gets, is there any audiophile anywhere that has resolutely arrived at the journey's end?
I've worked on other products that to a large part relied upon an aural interface and you know, we suffered the same ilk of issues. I also once shared a Lab. with two other groups of folks (I was doing Avionics), some were working on video faders and others on TV exciters. Guess what? They had the same problems. The common element: Humans! Wretched humans.
When they wanted an ignorant, unbiased observer they would sometimes turn to me.
"Can you tell a difference between these pictures?"
"Yes".
"Which is better?"
"That one"
"Shit!"
And like our stuff, the two things had "identical" group delay, gain, bandwidth...
Audiophiles are not alone. Oh, another example: "birders" and their binoculars and scopes, "Optics" they call them. Audiophiles are really OK, we just have normal discernment coupled with an especially intense interest.
We CARE about the sound!
Rick
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- RE: They do matter but only when they correlate with subjective results - rick_m 12:18:33 01/25/15 (1)
- RE: They do matter but only when they correlate with subjective results - morricab 12:47:42 01/25/15 (0)
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