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@atmasphere If you read that post again, that was not a posit, rather a question? I can’t make that posit without having heard the components I speak of. You posit they’ll all sound the same, apparently, you trust the measurements over human sensory perception. This in a nutshell, speaks to difference between O and S, I need to listen, O’s don’t.
The point I believe that you might have missed is the fact that he is an amplifier designer and manufacturer.
I would be pretty disappointed if Ralph, Bruno, and/or a handfuls of other “engineers” were using tweaks and burning of incense to design gear.
I would reword your quote to be:
This in a nutshell, speaks to difference between us.
- I listen carefully to O that have a track record of quality gear as understanding the objective science.
- And I listen to S as story tellers, sometimes conveying the qualitative.
A good objectivist understands what tickles the toes of the pure subjectivist.
The reverse is almost never true.
Maybe a subjectivist could be in a middle ground of wearing the twin hats of objectivist, and liking the subjective experience. But I doubt it.
It seems more common that one either is not capable of understanding the technical nuance, or they just do not want to… and they like to hold up their hands and claim it is all unknowable.
At some point though it is true that no matter how glowing the prose is, it is hard to make believe that something is good, when it in fact, sounds bad.
Hence I would not say “Trust our ears”, but I would say, “Verify with our ears.”
