But do your speakers spit at you when you play a Dead Kennedys album? Cuz if they don't, then it ain't live.
"I Trust My Ears"
Do you? Can you? Should you?
I don’t. The darn things try to trick me all the time!
Seriously, our ears are passive sensors. They forward sonic data to our brains. Ears don’t know if the data in question represents a child crying, a Chopin prelude, or a cow dropping a cowpie. That’s our brains’ job to figure out.
Similarly, our brains decide whether A sounds better than B, whether a component sounds phenomenal, etc.
So, "I trust my ears" should really be "I trust my brains".
And that has a different ring to it, doesn’t it?
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I always retain equipment so I can do A>B>A compare, and I may have to repeat this numerous times. These days seem to be retaining amps since I can't find fault with any of them, I rotate for the varied presentations. Sometimes its not the obvious things like resolution/transparency that offer the greatest contrast. |
Do you A>B>A compare to the original music? What did you find? I compared Qobuz, YT, and my system like below. Alex/WTA https://youtube.com/shorts/61_D_u9_rww?si=fBgSAK_cClJIjJzi
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