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AES paper: The Role of Critical Listening in Evaluating Audio Equipment Quality

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The Role of Critical Listening in Evaluating Audio Equipment Quality
Presented at 91st AES Convention 1991 October 4-8 New York
by Robert Harley, Stereophile Magazine (now the editor at The Absolute Sound)

Subjective critical listening can reveal aspects of audio equipment quality not exposed by traditional objective methods. Subjective listening impressions, however, are often unfairly dismissed as mysticism, even when conducted by conscientious, technically oriented practitioners.

This paper outlines the methods and underlying philosophy of professional critical listening, explores the reasons why subjective listening is rejected by the scientific audio community, and draws the distinction between serious listening and pseudoscientific claims.

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Whether he believes his nonsense or not, his livelihood depends on others believing it. Kind of like a holy man.
 
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