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What are we objectivists missing?

I have been following (with much amusement) various threads about cables and tweaks where some claim "game changing improvements" and other claim "no difference".  My take is that if you can hear a difference, there must be some difference.  If a device or cable or whatever measures exactly the same it should sound exactly the same.  So what are your opinions on what those differences might be and what are we NOT measuring that would define those differences?

jtucker
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mahgister
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Phonetic is not reducible to phonology for the same reason....

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mahgister
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«As Iain McGilchrist says, the left hemisphere is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. Which is why we cannot let that vocal part of ourselves, that sees only in part, betray the silent part that sees the whole.»- Winston Smith

Sound is a part, speech and music are whole not reducible to only measures of parts externally related to one another ... 

djones51
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I’m not confusing anything. I seems most of you can’t "comprehend" the fact that everything a human can hear can be measured. How well you hear or how good your listening skills has nothing to do with it. If it’s within the frequency spectrum of human hearing or even dog hearing then we can measure it. 12 year old's can hear way better than anyone on here and everything they hear can be measured. 

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thyname
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By that logic, babies are the group of population most able to discern good music and good sound 😂🙄

djones51
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I didn't see anything about good music or good sound in the OP. Those are subjective preferences, hearing ability isn't. Young females between the ages of 10 and 14 have the most acute hearing ability. 

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