All Amps Sound the Same....

the senses are unreliable. witnesses to an event often present different versions of an event.

what you hear one day, you may not hear on another.

there is a myriad of experiemnets in the psycholgy journals, which discuss the unreliability of perception.

when you trust your senses, the result is probably true and probably false.

most audio discussions are philosophical disccsions.

they have no definitive conclusion.

let me give you an example.

suppose two people are auditioning a stereo system. the evaluation by each one will probably differ, one from the other.

in my hypothetical example, it is impossible to determine which assessment is true and which is false.

in fact "truth" and "false" are hard to establish in these audio discussions.

Perception and reality come together if one of the two condtions are met:
1. Two or more people agree on what they saw or heard.
2. The President of the United States says it is so.

I use ROWLAND 8T 250ch sounds wonderful.

Frogman wrote:

music is all about emotion and the senses. The technology...has to honor that fact... The numbers must always take a back seat to the senses. One has to trust one's senses and emotions. That is what gives all this true meaning.

I nominate this for "Post of the Year". The ONLY thing that matters is how the performance you are listening to affects you/sounds to you!

I understand fully what MrTennis is saying but in audio the only tool we have is our hearing. It's not a perfect situation and two people can disagree about what they are hearing. That's basically why long term evaluation is relevant to our hobby and DBTs are not.
No piece of equipment has been able to deceive my senses in the long term. Yes the senses are unreliable for recording instantaneous events, I'll agree with this but the ears are good instruments and in this case the only relevant instrument.