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In Reply to: RE: Do measurements matter? - linked article posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne on January 23, 2015 at 15:39:56
I have heard equipment of two different designs have almost the same specs which sounded very different from each other.
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I am a pro violinist. I have only one violin, but no matter where I play it it sounds different. I have played in Carnegie Hall, and in Alice Tulley Hall....not far from each other, yet my instrument sounds miles different from the sound at each venue. ..as a matter of fact, on that same instrument if I choose to play with my alternate bow, the sound is different...or strings, or even rosin used on each of the bows. All of this sound is right....just different. I would encourage designers of equipment to concern themselves with the minutia of measurements, but for the listener....just enjoy.
Measurements matter. But many of today's measurements and/or how we use them often don't correlate with what we hear(of course that assumes a golden ear). Does that mean throw out measurements? No! It means learn to use the ones we have now better and also to find new ones. The sooner we do that the less reliance of the prophet's Golden Ear.
By the way I have seen graphs and measurements work quite well. I've seen a friend pick a cartridge from a frequency curve and a square wave(not knowing what the pickup was when he said it was good). I've seen the same friend design speakers on a computer in half a day and they were finished except for fine tuning that was just fine tuning the final colors of the speaker(since none is uncolored) to fit his own tastes.
Some measurements work for some people who actually know what they're doing. And if we keep working on the problems they will continue to be even better tools. Besides without even our current 'poor' measurements we couldn't even design the products that are then judged by Golden Ears.
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