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"Accuracy": not simple, alas

Your concept of "accurate" posits a distance relationship: closer for more accurate, further for less accurate. This is likely to be the case for perceptions that correspond to a single physical dimension. However, in the case of audio components there are numerous separate physical "dimensions" which apply. It will be generally impossible to find a consistent ordering, since each listener will place different emphasis on each dimension and one listener may even vary his emphasis as a function of the recordings being played. In some cases, preferences won't even be ordered linearly by a single listener. A may be preferred over B, B over C and C over A.

Of course if you compare two components that have widely different quality levels then the superior component will dominate in all categories in which case a preference will be clear.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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