I agree with those points about psychology. Of course it still leaves us with the issue of deciding whether X is better than Y.
If X and Y are line level equipment I use measurement data. Full stop. The other issue is X AUDIBLY better than Y. This can only be answered reliably by blind listening. (Sighted listening can also answer this ... just not reliably in my view.) It's impractical to A/B speakers blind; a lot of speaker performance is contingent on the listening space and position within it; and speakers are difficult to characterise entirely with measurements. This means speakers are probably always going to be a somewhat subjective purchase: pot luck from a psychological point of view! Darren Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
