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Your comments make no sense so I HAVE to twist them to make sense of them before I reply

YOU WROTE:
"What I said was: Fact is many a time the amp that measures the best, sounds the worst while the amp the measures the worst, sounds the best!"

MY COMMENTS TYPED SLOW SO EVEN YOU CAN UNDERSTAND:

"measures the best" is a meaningless phrase if the difference in measurements is too small to be audible.


For electronics, and especially for wires, "sounds the best" is completely subjective ... to such an extent that people will often claim to hear differences when a component is compared with itself (differences "heard" in 62% of trials of the infamous Stereophile blind amp comparison when an amp was compared with itself)

"Sounds the best" could apply to only one person in the world ... who could be biased by his feelings about the brand, the technology used, the appearance, and the fact that he just spent $10,000 for the component!

For speakers where "sounds the best" is more meaningful (differences among speakers are audible): There can be agreement among audiophiles that a specific speaker is above average in a wide variety of rooms.

-Maybe "sounds among the best I've heard" would be a useful description.

I think you'll find that most speakers rated "above average" will have "above average" measurements.

Floyd Toole's blind speakers auditions strongly suggests my prior statement is true for most listeners without hearing damage.
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Richard BassNut Greene
"I know what I hear" is often an audio fantasyland


Edits: 12/31/07
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