Ishkabilil wrote: " Are not accuracy and realism much the same? "
You would think so, but here is an example of what can happen: "Accuracy" is often evaluated by some relatively convenient metric, such as total harmonic distortion, which may or may not correspond to what sounds like "realism" to the ears. And it just so happens that THD does NOT correlate well with subjective preference in controlled double-blind testing. In other words, the standard yardstick for "accuracy" in amplifiers is arguably measuring the wrong thing!
So we end up with measurements which "establish" one amplifier as being more "accurate", when another amplifier which does not measure as well by THAT yardstick may actually sound more "realistic".
Ishkabibil again: "I am the easiest person to converse with come on I am a bass player..... "
I totally get it. Most of my business is with bass players (I’m a "boo-teek" bass cab manufacturer).
For those who don’t understand what Ishkabibil is talking about, what the bass player does is, he pours his energy into making the lead singer and the lead guitarist look really, really good. I read an article in a guitar magazine that said there were 27 guitar players for every bass player. So that’s twenty-seven guys who want to be in the limelight for every bass player who is happy to make them look good in that limelight.
To put it another way, if the Three Stooges had been a band, Larry would have been the bass player; he made Moe and Curly look good.
Duke
You would think so, but here is an example of what can happen: "Accuracy" is often evaluated by some relatively convenient metric, such as total harmonic distortion, which may or may not correspond to what sounds like "realism" to the ears. And it just so happens that THD does NOT correlate well with subjective preference in controlled double-blind testing. In other words, the standard yardstick for "accuracy" in amplifiers is arguably measuring the wrong thing!
So we end up with measurements which "establish" one amplifier as being more "accurate", when another amplifier which does not measure as well by THAT yardstick may actually sound more "realistic".
Ishkabibil again: "I am the easiest person to converse with come on I am a bass player..... "
I totally get it. Most of my business is with bass players (I’m a "boo-teek" bass cab manufacturer).
For those who don’t understand what Ishkabibil is talking about, what the bass player does is, he pours his energy into making the lead singer and the lead guitarist look really, really good. I read an article in a guitar magazine that said there were 27 guitar players for every bass player. So that’s twenty-seven guys who want to be in the limelight for every bass player who is happy to make them look good in that limelight.
To put it another way, if the Three Stooges had been a band, Larry would have been the bass player; he made Moe and Curly look good.
Duke