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Re : I believe it's quite apparent that today's accepted audio measurements do NOT correlate with what we hear.

Sorry, but that's rubbish.

Human hearing responds to sound pressure. To a lesser degree it responds to phase (group delay). It also responds to arrival times (interaural time delay). All those you can measure and very precisely so.

Of course no measurement will tell you which component sounds better. However, measurements will tell you which component is more accurate. Hifi is about accuracy of reproduction and IMO it's here where opinions diverge, whereas they should'nt.

If you record a solo instrument in an anechoic environment and play this recording at home over one speaker I think you won't know it's a recording, simply because the ambient cues from the place where the recording was made are not there so they can't mix with your room's ambient cues and cause confusion.


So you'd first have to define what this is all about: best sound or most accurate reproduction. In the first case there's no rational discussion possible, in the second case there is.


Klaus


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