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In Reply to: How is that not subjective posted by grblgrbl on July 23, 2002 at 13:13:56:
I agree. It does become...pointless comparing speaker a with speaker b with speaker c if their is no objective reference. In my opinion, that reference is live music. If this (live music -just go to a concert to remind yourself what it sounds like) is the standard by which all speakers are measured...you have a pretty objecttive standard of reference to say, speaker a comes this close, speaker b comes this close and so on.
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Different people will relate to different aspects of what a live experience sounds like to them. Also a live experience is determined by the acoustics of the venue and the sound system. Bottom line: our ears (and even less so our minds) are not objective gauges, they are subjective interpreters.
This is the ancient "what is quality?" question and I think we all realise that determining good sound takes education on our part. Even realising the differance between a true to life sound and a boxy, processed sound takes an education on the listeners part. Many people cannot tell a 'bad' wine from a 'good' one and may prefer the 'bad' until they take the time to educate the palate!
I agree. There is clearly an important aspect of education involved. However, when you get to speakers of approximate like quality, I believe it is largely a matter of subjective impressions and personal taste. Speakers in patrticular each have very unique tonal qualities. Whether you prefer the B&W N802, the Dynaudio Contour 3.3, the Proac Response 3.8, or the Revel Studio is, I would argue a matter of subjective perception and personal taste, not of objective truth.
We'll agree to disagree on this point
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