I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged.

I just can't clear my head of this. I don't want to start a measurements vs listening war and I'd appreciate it if you guys don't, but I bought a Rogue Sphinx V3 as some of you may remember and have been enjoying it quite a bit. So, I head over to AVS and read Amir's review and he just rips it apart. But that's OK, measurements are measurements, that is not what bugs me. I learned in the early 70s that distortion numbers, etc, may not be that important to me. Then I read that he didn't even bother listening to the darn thing. That is what really bugs me. If something measures so poorly, wouldn't you want to correlate the measurements with what you hear? Do people still buy gear on measurements alone? I learned that can be a big mistake. I just don't get it, never have. Can anybody provide some insight to why some people are stuck on audio measurements? Help me package that so I can at least understand what they are thinking without dismissing them completely as a bunch of mislead sheep.

russ6904-28-2022 9:14pm

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mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 22,913 posts 05-13-2022 at 03:13am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hey @mahgister what is your point? 20 words or less please. 😉
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,752 posts 05-13-2022 at 03:29am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hey @mahgister what is your point? 20 words or less please. 😉 I am sorry but here is my post above and i apologize because it is more than 20 words The situation is not very good in the world right now... I think music help a lot to relax... But good news and interesting stimulating research too... Then why ridiculizing this instead of thinking? Do you really miss if you are an objectivist arguing with some fetichist subjectivist, or if you are a subjectivist arguing with some zealot objectivist ? Do you miss this circling over this empty meaningless brain void? Not me... We are all normal audiophiles here and we dont need stupid oppositions based on the wind coming from some rear end.... What is sound? what is music? what is hearing? This interest me the most..... What is time is a very deep question and why time exist? What is musical time? Music dont obey the laws of external time, music emerge with his own time, and Alain Connes was amazed by this fact which for him illustrate a fundamental non- commutativity in the cosmos and in number theory like in music... All great maestros like Furwangler and Ansermet have wriiten about this fact, conducting a musical work is letting emerge his internal temporality over the external one... It is a new take in what philosophers of the past called "Platonic forms", which are better described for Anirban Bandyopadhyay by being time-like fractal crystals acting like a chain of hundred and hundred of clocks and intergrated geometrical patterns at the same time , all that distributed by the ruling prime numbers series.... i am amazed...
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,752 posts 05-13-2022 at 03:44am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete i am amazed.... Look at the book cover of the book "nanobots"... This second picture is the most complex object in the universe (no it is not the brain) we see here only the first stages here of his increasing complexity which develop itself to the infinite the infinite...: This object inspire the indian scientist and all mathematicians for years... This is a simple view of the prime numbers distribution which is the archetypal structure behind the cosmos universal memory internal chain and integrated external chain of clocks... This image illustrate for me one of the main idea of the Indian scientist in one of his paper to come soon : 15. How phase prime metric generates fundamental principles of physics to govern universe. With that we assist to the birth of a new physic based on sound, frequencies and time, instead of space, matter, and the eyes... a new concept of information too... it is an EVENT.... Then it is also the beginning of a new hearing science...Music is also way more fundamental that we humans think it was....
holmz Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,328 posts 05-13-2022 at 03:54am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I smoke a ton of weed and I think @mahgister @holmz do not smoke enough man. @music_is_life none is likely well below “not enough” 😎
music_is_life Details Discussions Posts This discussion 188 posts 05-13-2022 at 03:57am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Ludes? Brown Acid.