What are we objectivists missing?

In audiophile threads objectivist are not scientist, they are at best some engineers focused on their design tools measures and at worst people obsessed by blind test...

They miss the fact that acoustic experience is a science correlating objective and subjective factor...A disctinct science than electronical engineering....

In audiophile threads subjectivist are most of them buyer and consumer obsessed by some brand name product ... They ignore that the sound experience is linked for a great part to acoustic and mechanical and electrical factors which are not dependant on the electronical design itself only but on the way it is embedded...

Objectivist and subjectivist partake one thing in common: they are obsessed by a piece of gear and/or the tools to measure it...They are in the cult/business of consumerism gear technology marketing...

They miss the acoustic scientific principle correlating objective device disposition and measure with an evaluating and an evaluated subjectivity...

All serious engineer designer trust their ears and their design tools TOGETHER...They use acoustic knowledge too ....

It’s simple.  There are far too many variables in audio for anyone else to tell you what a change will do in your system.

Only buy from sellers who let you return the cable or the tweak if it doesn’t improve the SQ in your system.  Give it time to burn in, if it’s a cable or component, generally 100 hours or so, listen to it for a day, go back to what you had before and decide what you like better.

Measurements. A well known measurements based reviewer lambasted a product for one singular measurement, in the report no mention was made of listening whatsoever to the product. The product measured 0.003% distortion. You cannot hear 0.003% distortion. The same pages waxes lyrical about a turntable that has 0.06% wow and flutter, that’s 20 times higher, and also quotes others at over 200 times w&f. 

Audio subjectivists are the furthest thing from being religious, we disagree on so much. While we may believe in our systems and/or choice of equipment, we allow other's those same prerrogatives. If this religion, sure is one incoherent belief system.

On the other hand, the objectivist insists on conformation to some set of specs. Rather biblical like, with those running the tests conflated as gurus or Gods imparting their commandments unto the unwashed.

First of all, we are not listening to a cable, we are listening to a system, our system, which most people here know the sound of intimately.

Here's a test:  How about you record your system playing real music at say 1 meter using "perfect" microphones direct into a "perfect" ADC. Switch cables and repeat. This is a thought experiment so I can say "perfect".

Compare the two digital files to see if there are any differences. Possibly incorporate AI "deep learning" to discover over time what that difference sounds like.

Just sayin'.

Regards,

barts