@artemus_5
What I find interesting in your post, if I am understanding you correctly, is that you acknowledge that things that measure the same would sound the same to a calibrated robot, but not to humans because we are not calibrated. It seems that what you're saying is that things that measure the same don't necessarily sound the same because of external forces that apply to humans. There's a big difference between thing sounding the same and humans not being able to hear them consistently. Our inability to hear things the same doesn't means that the sound coming out of the speakers isn't the same. Room acoustics are very dynamic and shifting the position of your ears will result in a different listening experience, so you'd have to be able to consistently differentiate between the expected differences in listening experiences from the unavoidable forces and what might be there from whatever physical change was made to the system.
I'm almost certain that I've heard Paul from PS Audio say that he's heard differences in speaker wires that were clear, but not in interconnects. I find this statement quite curious as their website includes "Paul's Picks" that include increasingly expensive interconnects to match the price point of the gear in the package. What criteria did he use to pick them? The most likely scenario is that they are just using his name.
I think that it's entirely possible that things like cables and such can make a difference in a system of high enough quality, but I've not personally had the opportunity to be convinced.
What I find interesting in your post, if I am understanding you correctly, is that you acknowledge that things that measure the same would sound the same to a calibrated robot, but not to humans because we are not calibrated. It seems that what you're saying is that things that measure the same don't necessarily sound the same because of external forces that apply to humans. There's a big difference between thing sounding the same and humans not being able to hear them consistently. Our inability to hear things the same doesn't means that the sound coming out of the speakers isn't the same. Room acoustics are very dynamic and shifting the position of your ears will result in a different listening experience, so you'd have to be able to consistently differentiate between the expected differences in listening experiences from the unavoidable forces and what might be there from whatever physical change was made to the system.
I'm almost certain that I've heard Paul from PS Audio say that he's heard differences in speaker wires that were clear, but not in interconnects. I find this statement quite curious as their website includes "Paul's Picks" that include increasingly expensive interconnects to match the price point of the gear in the package. What criteria did he use to pick them? The most likely scenario is that they are just using his name.
I think that it's entirely possible that things like cables and such can make a difference in a system of high enough quality, but I've not personally had the opportunity to be convinced.