Exactly Kevin. Not sure where this is coming from but there's a tendency amongst audiophools to practice cargo cult science.
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absolutely
I dont really believe in subjectivity in audio.
thes best audio system is the most transparent. if the audio chian is transparent, it will sound exactly like the recording.
if its transparent, its the best you can ever achieve.
audio is pure science. theres no taste in that
then, if you want to change the sound, its okay to use different amp topologies, but its not the speaker job to do the salt and peper adjustment.
when you get in headphones world, theres real consensus and everybody will find that x headphone is better then y.
its only when you get in very very high end that then taste can be again a bit subjective, but even there, I tend to doubt that. problem is that we dont have the same environments, same amp, same source, so to compare gear is close to impossible
hence the amazing gearslutz nearfield high end test, where the guy spent close to 4 k in shipping and tried, in the same treated room with same gear, 30 high end speakers.
I dont really believe in subjectivity in audio.
thes best audio system is the most transparent. if the audio chian is transparent, it will sound exactly like the recording.
if its transparent, its the best you can ever achieve.
audio is pure science. theres no taste in that
then, if you want to change the sound, its okay to use different amp topologies, but its not the speaker job to do the salt and peper adjustment.
when you get in headphones world, theres real consensus and everybody will find that x headphone is better then y.
its only when you get in very very high end that then taste can be again a bit subjective, but even there, I tend to doubt that. problem is that we dont have the same environments, same amp, same source, so to compare gear is close to impossible
hence the amazing gearslutz nearfield high end test, where the guy spent close to 4 k in shipping and tried, in the same treated room with same gear, 30 high end speakers.
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