If measurements don’t help us get the sound we’re after then we need different measurements. If two different components are almost universally agreed to sound different than each other there should be something we can measure to at least show there’s a difference in their performance that is known to be audibly different. Where I have problems with some "subjectivists" is when they objectively state there’s a substantial sonic difference but there’s nothing obvious in any measurements and nobody can tell the difference in a blind test. They attack the test and the measurements without even entertaining the thought that maybe there’s something psychological going on with their perception of the sound that has nothing to do with the actual soundwaves that are reaching their ears.
I Am Tired of Bogus Measurements
My expensive shoes have measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will they fit. My expensive new suit has measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will my expensive new shoes match.
The people being misled by measruements aren’t being led my manufacturers, they are being misled by reviewers. Idiotic rankings of digital gear based on measurements outside the range of human hearing. Cancelling entire brands who put out features customers actually want as they sell to humans, not bats. The worst of these websites will rant about their own superior $$$ equipment but mot even one person will ever use speakers in a klippel matchine, they actually put them in a room! The horror. The cancelling of brands, the talking down to the customers, is bogus.
You need to measure what matters! Are the customers actually happy? Is the warranty honored? Most importantly is their an in home audition period?
I don’t need someone to tell me if I could or should like a product. My room is not a test bench, or a klippel machine. Who cares what the component measures by itself because unless its a clock radio I’ll never use it by itself, I have to interconnect it in a "system" with "high quality" cables, (as in all cables are not the same).
If you want to measure something measure how your personal system of curated components interact with your room. That’s it. The rest of the stuff you could forget because these days if a brand overpromises and under delivers they will be following a formula for losing money, an no company likes that.