You can start by reading the JAES papers from the Harman group, specifically any of the studies involving human subjects and blind listening.
We all recognize the existence of bias when listening. Thing is, when listening to transducers, the actual audible difference are large, relative to the contribution of internal bias. It's different from listening to SOTA devices, like DACS, where the actual audible differences are miniscule or non-existence. I could understand why you might want to disregard sighted listening tests when it comes to SOTA electronics. But that does not necessarily carry over to speakers and headphones.
That's your business.
The ability of measurements to explain differences in sound quality perceptions of speakers is good but not perfect - and that's with computerized analysis. The ability of an ASR member to eyeball a series of speaker measurements and predict how it will sound - probably "just okay." This is why I want to hear about the subjective impressions of others. When multiple individuals independently express the same listening observation, it's very possible that it's true.
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I understand that one migth think with such obviusly non perfect products like speakers bias would be a smaller factor.
But what ive read about the actual test done , its a huge factor . Tooles book is full of such tests.
Nowadays speakers are better and also more similar between brands as they adhere to the same science . Much of the weirdnes seems of the past seems to abandoned in “normal” speaker brands . Some Uber expensive high brands still do very odd things.
If violins sound off, than many other sounds on them must be off to you as well.
Maybe their tonality is just not for you.
I think this is odd for another reason . Yes many others sounds would be equally coloured . It would even be beyond the power of DSP to single out a particular instrument and distort that ?
It’s similar to folks claiming soundstage differences in DAC’s the device does not contain any mechanism that can do that ?