Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists?


When these two camps retire to their listening rooms, which school of thought tends to get better sound? Those who ultimately place their faith in measurements above actually listening to their systems? Or those of us who look at measurements, but ultimately make our decisions based on what subjectively sounds best to us?

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there are people who have been in this arena for some time, yet don’t trust their own ability to discern what sounds good or ’right’... lost souls in this pursuit as far as i am concerned

then there are folks who rely on measurements, must, just must have measurements to establish or confirm their beliefs -- this because of their training, or experiences in related or other fields...well, that may be understandable, as we are all products of our life experiences -- when you have relied on a hammer (and only a hammer) all your life, it is hard to see the world as anything else but a bed of nails

It would seem that the objectivists 1st priority is to make sure the measurements are correct. Thus  the measurements inform them that the system sounds good, NOT the system's sound itself.