In Reply to: Measurements in stereophile posted by abajaj11 on May 18, 2004 at 20:16:08:
"I place absolutely NO credence on the reviews, nor on the measurements.
Why not on the measurements? In the range they are measuring in, a much worse sounding piece of audio equipment can sound MUCH better subjectively. "Certain measurements can tell you a lot about how a product is enginnered, which to me is useful as ONE indicator of performance. I never said measurements are the panacea. But they are more useful than most overly subjective reviews.
The issue of scale that you mention is IMHO not that relevant. Measurements have gotten fairly accurate. It seems the problem is more one of interaction between different qualities, than scale. In other words, frequency response, step response, distortion, are all different slices of the same pie. one view does not tell you that much --even a number of static views misses the dynamic nature of sound.
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