adamdea
You are not a sound quality evaluation device
if you look at the old BBC papers on loudspeaker evaluation on their website they use the word "subjective" to refer to listening tests and "objective" to refer to measurement. I think this was all well understood and perfectly sound use of terms by very good engineers.So you can assume a context and then they mean whatever you choose them to mean? Very subjective.
Subjective relates to the mental state of the observer, the 'subject', objective relates to the physical qualities of the object. A properly controlled listening test is therefore objective.
Paul
The problem is that after the appearance fo the term objectivist and subjectivist (which are confused labels/insults) people have started to reverse engineer the word subjective and objective to take their meaning from the confused ideology words.
There is no need for any confusion about this if you refer to subjective and objective evaluation techniques without being attached to the notion that all objective evaluations are good/bad (delete as applicable) and all subjective evaluations are bad/good (mutatis mutandis).
No one is ever going to get out of this pathetic mire if they won't let go of the half-digested conceptual claptrap.