My main system measures impeccably.
What should I do about it?
What should I do about it?
If you enjoy the sound like this it's ok but maybe a system with less good measure would be more enjoyable because some science has 'not yet been discovered or is not enough marketting.My main system measures impeccably.
What should I do about it?
If you enjoy the sound like this it's ok but maybe a system with less good measure would be more enjoyable because some science has 'not yet been discovered or is not enough marketting.
...some people will always say that theory of better sinad and thd is perfect
Then why do i hear obvious differences between op amps?
But science say that frequency upper 20khz make sound more enjoyable. Valve could create such frequencies with the harmonics. Maybe there is a threshold. Too much distortion bad. No distortion bad. A little harmonics in high frequencies better enjoyable.The science generally says that below a certain threshold, nonlinear distortion and noise become undetectable (inaudible). That's entirely uncontroversial, and notwithstanding that a few misguided audiophiles sit at home and claim that their sighted listening tests "prove" the science is wrong, there can be no argument about this.
However, where levels of nonlinear distortion are audible, the science is clear that THD is a poor metric in terms of correlation with subjective preference.
But science say that frequency upper 20khz make sound more enjoyable.
.......It's also possible that you have the same biases and foibles as every other human being on the planet, and if you controlled the listening test properly, the audible differences might prove to be illusory........
Read this posting.Then why do i hear obvious differences between op amps? It's like tube. Even on good engineered dac you can hear differences by aop rolling and no measurements can explains it. Then all people that believes on measurements believe that all aop sound the same. People that are not biased by measurements will find easy to find differences between op amps.
My main system measures impeccably.
What should I do about it?
If i listen other a week an opa and i don't like the sound then i change the opa for a week i like the other better. Then i switch back to the other opa and i feel i don't like and find it fatiguing. You say it's purely psychological? Well i prefer enjoying my music so science doesn't help here.Right. We here can appear dismissive and closed minded/unscientific when we summarily reject the opinions of those who have honestly experienced major differences in sound between DACS, Tubes, Cables, Op Amps, etc., when it is not backed by measurement.
I hope they understand it is the idea that real but unmeasurable differences exist that we question. We do not question that they, or their loved ones or acquaintances heard differences, even major ones.
SIY is right, humans cannot believe their ears in sighted, rather than blind tests. None of us can. There is solid science that backs this up.
J.J. Johnston in this video explained it to me the best. If you watch from 1:00 in to 6:00 you get the gist. It is not insulting to say that you cannot believe your ears on sighted/non bind tests. It just means you are human.
Happened to me as well (long ago), after I put 4 small sicomin platters under the feet of my then Thorens TD-115. As excuse I should tell that I got them for free."Even my wife in the other room said how good it sounded!"
I love these lines as well and how its given as evidence or confirmation that something sounds 'different' or 'better'.
And sometime theory that were right at a time become wrong when new things are discovered.
@GGroch why don't you try to find studies that could explain differencies percieved ? Why only saying no it s impossible it's psychological?
But all your perfect science doesn't take into account the studies that show that frequencies that are not hearable make sound more enjoyable prooved by scanning the brain activity
Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC.You're making the claim, you need to provide the evidence. It's not any scientist's job to test every half baked idea flung out by random people.