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RE: "You need to hear both and make a decision with your ears"

Measurements and tests from 3rdparty sources don't lie about a speaker's performance. It is what it is and physics cannot be argued with. Where the issue lies is the brain's interpretation of what we hear. Hearing is very subjective while measurements are objective and absolute. These old audiophile statements you have quoted come out of ignorance by the audiophile community as a whole and shows a complete misunderstanding in the difference between object measurements and subjective interpretation. Subjective interpretation does not mean listening only. It also infers other biases such as our moods, visual stimulation, etc. How many of us sat and listened to our systems listening to the same source of music and on different days and have reached different opinions of our system? Its not the system that performed differently. Its our subjective interpretation of what we heard at that time that is influencing what he heard.

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