Dear RichardKrebs: "" We do not listen to specifications.
If we did, tube equipment for example, with its typically inferior measured performance, would be off our Christmas shopping list.
My view is that we can hear way deeper into the output of a product than measurements can articulate. ""
Agree, we listen to sound waves in the air. I think that the whole true hig-end audio community is " suffering " a historical trend/cancer where almost no one really cares on what we are really listen to. That trend said: " the best judge are your ears ". Audio retailers, reviewers and almost all the audiophiles ( like you . ) believe that's the " Byble " and that's all about and is not a fault of any one of us. As I said is just that trend/cancer that corrupted our today hobby.
Tubes is a very good example of that corruption but this is not the thread to talk about.
I don't " blame " you in anyway because you did not measure before and after, almost no one does, but could be really interesting for you ( the " creator " of that mods. ) where you are " seated ". If you want to disclosure to the audio community or not: this is your privilege. I can tell you that if I decide your mods to my units I really like to have those " numbers ": before/after.
I remember, many years ago, when was developed our phonolinepreamp ( Essential 3150/60. ) that its " sounds " was just " fabolous/spectacular " against what I heard on top similar audio units and for us was not enough our subjective judgements and we measured that unit and found out that its numbers were " unvelievables " ( example: even today the best units can't approach or beats our fully analog RIAA deviation: 0.012dbs! ). These gave us certainity on the why's and what we were " proclaming " in the whole quality performance of that audio unit.
IMHO, subjectivity or objectivity alone means almost nothing. My opinion is that both " words " are faraway from be one against the other but that exist an intimate realtionship in between and IMHO we need to know it instead that: " I like it ".
Richar obviously don't take the " road " posted here:
" People don't know what it means anyway. Imagine a turntable going from 70dB S/N to 90dB !! You could pretend to rewrite the laws of physics with some doubletalk ..... "
that IMHO is almost an " insult " to the audio community but each one can gives its opinion in this " free world ".
Thank's for your answer.
Regards and enjoy the music,
R.
If we did, tube equipment for example, with its typically inferior measured performance, would be off our Christmas shopping list.
My view is that we can hear way deeper into the output of a product than measurements can articulate. ""
Agree, we listen to sound waves in the air. I think that the whole true hig-end audio community is " suffering " a historical trend/cancer where almost no one really cares on what we are really listen to. That trend said: " the best judge are your ears ". Audio retailers, reviewers and almost all the audiophiles ( like you . ) believe that's the " Byble " and that's all about and is not a fault of any one of us. As I said is just that trend/cancer that corrupted our today hobby.
Tubes is a very good example of that corruption but this is not the thread to talk about.
I don't " blame " you in anyway because you did not measure before and after, almost no one does, but could be really interesting for you ( the " creator " of that mods. ) where you are " seated ". If you want to disclosure to the audio community or not: this is your privilege. I can tell you that if I decide your mods to my units I really like to have those " numbers ": before/after.
I remember, many years ago, when was developed our phonolinepreamp ( Essential 3150/60. ) that its " sounds " was just " fabolous/spectacular " against what I heard on top similar audio units and for us was not enough our subjective judgements and we measured that unit and found out that its numbers were " unvelievables " ( example: even today the best units can't approach or beats our fully analog RIAA deviation: 0.012dbs! ). These gave us certainity on the why's and what we were " proclaming " in the whole quality performance of that audio unit.
IMHO, subjectivity or objectivity alone means almost nothing. My opinion is that both " words " are faraway from be one against the other but that exist an intimate realtionship in between and IMHO we need to know it instead that: " I like it ".
Richar obviously don't take the " road " posted here:
" People don't know what it means anyway. Imagine a turntable going from 70dB S/N to 90dB !! You could pretend to rewrite the laws of physics with some doubletalk ..... "
that IMHO is almost an " insult " to the audio community but each one can gives its opinion in this " free world ".
Thank's for your answer.
Regards and enjoy the music,
R.