The problem with subjective impressions

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The issue for me is where everything is subjectively different including things that can't make a difference.

 

It's a credibility issue. I miss Julian Hirsch

 

" Here’s a revealing quote from his October 1977 “Technical Talk” column: “A purely subjective reaction to an audio product tells a reader only what that particular reviewer thought of the product when he ‘heard’ it in a given room, with certain associated equipment, at a particular time, and under particular conditions. Such an evaluation is bound to be highly personal and limited in scope.”

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2 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 Thanks for the good laugh .

 In my experience, the hard line Objective side will only accept the results of a series of correctly performed  Blind Tests when the results go the way they expect them to.

 

There are a lot of disciplines that won't accept incorrectly performed testing. I know, right?

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1 minute ago, sandyk said:

 

 As this is mainly a Subjective based forum, as evidenced by the name of the forum, and supported by paid advertisements from members of the Hi Fi industry, the % of suitably qualified members is almost certainly a small minority of the total membership and readers of the forum.

 

Yep and it was Computer Audiophile before that. Computers deal in protocols, they deal in substantiation and data integrity. Either by a few feet or thousands upon thousands of mile.

 

Many a hospital where patients outnumber the MD's.

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Just now, sandyk said:

 As is usually the case, blame everybody except yourself.

Note also that this IS a Subjective thread that was started by a member from the Subjective side, who almost certainly didn't wish to hear the usual demands for DBT testing every time somebody reports hearing a difference after an equipment modification or change of equipment.

 

Measurements would suffice. I blind tested reconstruction filters of a DAC over headphones and could 100% pick out when it was A or B. The cool thing is seeing what it looked like measurement wise.