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In Reply to: RE: Your words, not mine. posted by theaudiohobby on October 29, 2009 at 06:38:34
"Your words, not mine. Anyway moving on"
Indeed, and as we move on it's assumed we are all in agreement with the conclusion as forwarded - ie. that the Benchmark does indeed sound worse than the others.
Truth of the matter, for the conversation to move on with any relevance whatsoever, we should be in agreement on this point.
But alas we move on anyways and even worse than that the assumption seems to be that if there is a preference for equipment with more colorations and less measureable performance there must be some measureable reason why? Well if we all had a common frame of reference there might be some truth to this reasoning, however stereo by it's very nature is ill-defined, and getting such a reference is no small task if outright impossible.
Geez seems reasonable to me to conclude that the best measureable audio performance isn't always the best thing because it reveals the limitations of stereo itself. And beyond that there's an infinite amount of flexibility allowed to the recordist and an infinite number of speaker placements / room combinations.
To think audiophiles haven't figured out the subjectiveness of all of this after 50 years is mind boogling. Of course much of the marketing and advertising that fills our hobbyist magazines (ie. marketing vehicles) appeals to our objective nature (ie. in general our lack of smarts).
The old Exposure distributor coined a term for this kind of psuedo-scientifical kind of thinking - he called it "gooberism" and I think it's a fitting term.
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