The Unmeasurable Aspects of High-End Audio – PS Audio

Stating the obvious.  Good design matters. Noise and distortion is bad.  But there will always be different strokes for different folks.  

@carlsbad2 

I agree with your first sentence, you are quibbling.  I saw the video yesterday and I felt that he perfectly nailed my sentiment, which is that we haven’t discovered all of the factors that go into appreciating reproduction of music, and that we can’t measure variables that haven’t been discovered.

  Of course, one could cynically note that PSA has released this video after being  publicly criticized in the audiophile press for releasing a very expensive component that measured poorly 

@mahler123 Indeed there are some idiots that I declined to name that post a lot of absolute BS about equipment, especially high end equipment, based on their measurements of things that don't matter.  I hope PSA crushes them.

Jerr

Way back when, several golden ear writers finally agreed to a blind test. I forget which magazine, I read several in those days.

All SS, high end brands, New equipment, all broken in:

none of them could reliably/repeatedly choose anything better than the Pioneer Receiver slipped into the mix that was selected by them as inconsistently as any other.

Tubes: a whole different world, now we get to 'preferred' not better'