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In Reply to: so how equipment looks does make a difference to how it sounds?? come on. posted by Tom Schuman on February 24, 2015 at 05:47:17:
...my comparison was facetious.
Second, I posted this above:
"...is there objective proof for anything that provides you more emotional and sensual satisfaction?
Restaurant/food review
High performance automobile review
Wine review
High end hotel review
Audio equipment review using music reproduction
The point of each of these, and many others, is for the reviewer to describe their experience so you can try it yourself if it sounds appealing.
If you are unable to distinguish or appreciate the differences between one and another, then no amount of objective information will matter."
And finally:
>The reason 'subjective reviewing' has taken off in the US is 1) audiophiles are inherently individualistic and 2) the magazines haven't had the resources to do really intensive, group testing under controlled conditions, which actually can and does tell you more about a component than oodles of verbiage, turd polishing, glossy pictures, and a few measurement graphs for the pseudo-scientists among us.>
I disagree. This is a hobby. Like any hobby, people like to read about and discuss the opinions of "experts" to see how their experience compares or for guidance in making a short list of equipment to audition for themselves.
Subjective reviewing took off in the early 1970s when J. Gordon Holt decided he wanted to write about how the equipment sounded rather than how it measured. Today Stereophile does both.
I have seen no real evidence that group testing under controlled conditions (not easy to do correctly) is any better at identifying small audible differences than experienced observational listening.
But the important part of audio reviewing is describing the audible differences in detail - in terms of music reproduction - which no measurement or objective test can do.
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