Yup. Stare on those graphs, and you will know exactly how it will sound. This way, one can “audition” and compare dozens of DACs from the comfort of their home without lifting a finger or spending any money 🙄🤦♂️
Pretty much… if we see a spray of harmonics it tells us a lot.
We may not know how good it will sound, but it can certainly tell us how bad it should sound.
Do you find it perplexing that most of the equipment that many seem to like listening to have a similar harmonic structure, and that the harmonics are generally low… and that they also measure pretty good?
Or why is there a correlation?
Is it just luck?
@thyname We can compare this to praying, versus going to the doctor.
Most people still go to the doctor… so maybe the lord works in mysterious ways both in medicine as well as in electronics.
It is not like the sound comes from magic. There is some engineering that people have done to reveal the things we call refer to secularly as theory.
It is not a parallel universe, or tribal thing, unless we make it so. The science and the listening pleasure seem largely correlated and causal.
But there is also the psychological element of knowing that <high buck item> should sound better than some other <low buck> item.
Not understanding graphs and measurement is OK. One can avoid them, and there is no reason to hate them or find contempt/disgust in people that find them useful.