Randy-11 - my ears let me know when improvements have been achieved because I hear nuances in the music that I recall from a lifetime playing musical instruments, namely - Piano, drums, electric guitar acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar bass guitar, mandolin harmonica and drums.
When my system responds in a manner that more accurately portrays my memory of those instruments, then I believe it is performing better.
I believe relying on what your memory recalls from actually playing instruments is a far better method to gauge system accuracy and improvements than a blind test.
There are subtleties like...
- the complex harmonics of the piano
-the speed (i.e. dynamics) of percussion instruments
- the complexities produced as the bow hits a stringed instrument
- the sound that a guitar players nails makes as they pluck the strings
- the complex sounds a slide makes on a Dobro guitar
- the spitting sounds that brass players tend to make
- the complex breathing of Oboe and clarinet players
- the mind blowing rangeand complexity of a pipe organ
- and many many more
When a cable allows my system to reproduce those nuances better than another cable then I have heard an improvement - i.e. I trust my ears
As I stated above - I cannot "prove" the science - but then neither can a blind test
Regards
When my system responds in a manner that more accurately portrays my memory of those instruments, then I believe it is performing better.
I believe relying on what your memory recalls from actually playing instruments is a far better method to gauge system accuracy and improvements than a blind test.
There are subtleties like...
- the complex harmonics of the piano
-the speed (i.e. dynamics) of percussion instruments
- the complexities produced as the bow hits a stringed instrument
- the sound that a guitar players nails makes as they pluck the strings
- the complex sounds a slide makes on a Dobro guitar
- the spitting sounds that brass players tend to make
- the complex breathing of Oboe and clarinet players
- the mind blowing rangeand complexity of a pipe organ
- and many many more
When a cable allows my system to reproduce those nuances better than another cable then I have heard an improvement - i.e. I trust my ears
As I stated above - I cannot "prove" the science - but then neither can a blind test
Regards