Recent content by Octavian

As already mentioned in this thread measurements cannot always correlate with all subjective impressions. The measurements may be insufficient, invalid or unreliable. Then again the subjective impressions may be partly or wholly generated by psychological factors. I see the latter as at least a...

The outcome certainly is not "sounds better" since that is entirely subjective. Instead the outcome could be seen as "does dac A reproduce the signal more faithfully to the original signal than dac B".

It is good to realize that this is actually the whole rationale behind the measurement based approach. The better the device measures the more it is able to reproduce the music both as written and performed. Worse measuring devices may occasionally please you more but that is not about the music...

Please try to stand behind your words.

That certainly sounds locical but I do not think it means it is true. I asked you multiple times.

To me its seems you did not. Then again we may have entirely different definitions for evidence.

And they do it intentionally in order to do well in ASR tests? That was the gist of Del Monaco’s claim.

How do you know this? Or is it indeed just your imagination?

But how do you know the manufacturers on the list act the way you claimed?

How do you know this?

I do not think that is the point of measurements - or the point of hifi in general. Measurements attempt to determine how badly the signal is corrupted when it flows through thr system. They do not attempt to predict what the listener personally likes. How could it? Quite a few audiophiles seem...

The best and most likely explanation for this is of course that the subjective end user appraisals have very little to do with actual differences in audible output and everything to do with psychological phenomena. No measurements can ever correlate with those.

Look, Borresen is charging 100 k for a two way stand mount loudspeaker. None of the technical sophistication matters here, it is pure marketing speak.

I am glad you liked the system. But we are still talking about personal preferences. I do not think the impressive kit list (to those who are impressed by that sort of thing) is quite enough to elevate these opinions into facts.

They are luxury items. Luxury items have to be expensive enough to attract customers wanting luxury items. You would not want a Rolex costing 200 pounds.