jaffacake;298419 Wrote: > > My intention is to change this a little. I'm not going to sprinkle > fairy dust and say that I think one sounds better than the other, or > that ones looks better than the other...these things are all > subjective. But if one unit takes less than one second to start > playback of the same file that it takes the other unit three seconds to > cue up, then we have a fact based reason for preference. >
Ben, I don't know you, I don't know your reviews and all the history of this that obviously generates some strong feelings here, but what you infer in this statements is, of course, not true. Measures are used to generate the notion of objectivity but they are not. All these measures are just single statement, that overall do nothing to generate objectivity. You may generate some COMPARABILITY if you do lots of tests to the same set of parameters but that's still not objective. You can generate whatever result you wish by selecting the measures you take, and even the importance of single measures is deeply subjective. For example, I don't care the least whether a song takes one or two seconds to play but I care a lot about how well I can find it. That may be different for more organized people who know the filename and path to each and every track in their collection. Etc etc. You say you work for a car company. So do I so both of us probably know how auto reviews are usually faked in car magazines. They usually even feature a standard set of measures they run on every test but believe me, the results of the tests only depend on their relation to the carmkers' marketing department. There's "Depreciation" to compensate for "Cost", "Comfort" to compensate for "Handling" and plenty of other measures that you can balance however you like. I don't know whether you are open to SB or prefer Sonos or whatever but to state that you are doing a single "objective" test is just smoke and mirrors since there is no such thing. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47145 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
