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Re: How do you measure connoiseurship?

Posted by e-stat on February 20, 2001 at 08:19:51:
My intention was not to state that current manufacturers do not employ more exotic kinds of measurements, but rather that I think it is fair to say that observational listening ultimately plays a big role in the voicing of high end components. Do you believe that any designer worth his/her salt solely relies on the numbers for the performance of their products?
What measurements, for example, do you find directly equate to the ability of a component to reproduce natural timbres of brass or woodwinds? How do you explain the fact that there are large numbers of excellent high end products designed by talented engineers that all sound different? Are some/many/all just stupid and don't understand the test gear? I think not.
There may eventually come a time when the science catches up and is able to quantify what as yet it cannot. I would hope that those in the industry would continue to refine such testing methodologies to meet that eventual goal. Just don't rely on them solely until then. Wasn't it only recently that science was able to explain how a bumblebee fiies?