Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists?


When these two camps retire to their listening rooms, which school of thought tends to get better sound? Those who ultimately place their faith in measurements above actually listening to their systems? Or those of us who look at measurements, but ultimately make our decisions based on what subjectively sounds best to us?

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The worst system is the one created by objectivist

Objectivist? This has nothing to do with a system. They typically don’t need any “system” to really be an expert. They just KNOW. You know, graphs is the Internet and such 😉

Some will demand an explanation of how something works before they are willing to try it, but, if it works (produces the desired results), no explanation is required for it to do so.

Demand?  That's not nice, who likes demanding people?  I show them my back.

Anyway, is there something, anything, implicit in this statement that there exists no possible explanation or reason available for producing the desired results?

vinylzone
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I never really bought into Ayn Rand’s philosophy

lol, a very different type of ‘objectivist.’ In fact villains in an Ayn Rand novel are precisely the types we see here pontificating why certain things in our systems cannot possible work and for which they have little of no direct experience. Clever comment 😂