@ted_d
Admittedly I haven’t monitored all the pages since I joined this thread but...that phrasing strikes me as a straw man.
I count myself as a skeptic about fuses, but I wouldn’t be making any such claim, and I didn’t see any other skeptic make such a claim. (Unless someone has made it more recently).
The issue isn’t "Proving X is better objectively" but rather "demonstrating that the difference between X and Y are actually audible."
THEN we can talk about which one someone might prefer.
I’d also point out that in many ways one CAN show objectively one product to be "better" than another. We just have to look at the parameters of performance we want to improve, then measure them (or do controlled tests showing people can hear one as better than the other).
That doesn’t sound very scientific. But then I suppose you aren’t trying to be scientific? (And if that were the case, I’d wonder on what principles you base your products?)
If there are "too many variables" to test in a controlled manner, then there’s no reason to think uncontrolled subjectivity is going to do any better - in fact it’s less likely to discern between variables and likely just introduces more variables.
Let me repeat this, there is absolutely NO OBJECTIVE CRITERIA OR TEST THAT EXISTS TODAY THAT CONCLUSIVELY PROVES ANY PRODUCT TO BE BETTER THAN ANY OTHER.
Admittedly I haven’t monitored all the pages since I joined this thread but...that phrasing strikes me as a straw man.
I count myself as a skeptic about fuses, but I wouldn’t be making any such claim, and I didn’t see any other skeptic make such a claim. (Unless someone has made it more recently).
The issue isn’t "Proving X is better objectively" but rather "demonstrating that the difference between X and Y are actually audible."
THEN we can talk about which one someone might prefer.
I’d also point out that in many ways one CAN show objectively one product to be "better" than another. We just have to look at the parameters of performance we want to improve, then measure them (or do controlled tests showing people can hear one as better than the other).
There are simply too many variables, known and more importantly unknown that can only be taken in as a whole from a subjective standpoint.
That doesn’t sound very scientific. But then I suppose you aren’t trying to be scientific? (And if that were the case, I’d wonder on what principles you base your products?)
If there are "too many variables" to test in a controlled manner, then there’s no reason to think uncontrolled subjectivity is going to do any better - in fact it’s less likely to discern between variables and likely just introduces more variables.