confucius_zero
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Which makes me question the correllation of this statement...
I questioned this 50 years ago, and came to the well considered conclusion that they're two different things.
Measurement data is absolute. It tells you what the equipment does. Audio quality is subjective and different for each of us. Bordeaux or Burgundy? Tea or coffee? Apples or pears?
That's why for audio I care only for the measurements as what I hear is of no value to anyone except me, and even that depends on my mood and how much Talisker I've consumed.
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But what has the equipment to do with the appreciation of music? It's a tool, like a hammer or a washing machine. I get as much emotional connection with my hifi as I get from my lawn mower.It may tell you what the equipment does , but its presently well short of measuring our appreciation of music.
Yup, I had a completely different stereo system over Christmas as I drank the Tamdue I got given.I questioned this 50 years ago, and came to the well considered conclusion that they're two different things.
Measurement data is absolute. It tells you what the equipment does. Audio quality is subjective and different for each of us. Bordeaux or Burgundy? Tea or coffee? Apples or pears?
That's why for audio I care only for the measurements as what I hear is of no value to anyone except me, and even that depends on my mood and how much Talisker I've consumed.
S
It may tell you what the equipment does , but its presently well short of measuring our appreciation of music.
But what has the equipment to do with the appreciation of music? It's a tool, like a hammer or a washing machine. I get as much emotional connection with my hifi as I get from my lawn mower.
Music, however, has nothing to do with the equipment it's reproduced on. In most cases, it was composed hundreds of years before reproduction was even possible, so no, no connection as far as I'm concerned.
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I don't think they are.Which makes me question the correllation of this statement...
Exactly.I questioned this 50 years ago, and came to the well considered conclusion that they're two different things.
Measurement data is absolute. It tells you what the equipment does. Audio quality is subjective and different for each of us. Bordeaux or Burgundy? Tea or coffee? Apples or pears?
That's why for audio I care only for the measurements as what I hear is of no value to anyone except me, and even that depends on my mood and how much Talisker I've consumed.
S
Placing value on people and their expressions of enjoyment when hearing music, more so than data, is a good place to start.
Tom Waits once said he prefers the sound of music from an AM radio coming from an apartment window out of a cracked/broken speaker.
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Which makes me question the correllation of this statement...
I'm pretty sure it was a Mexican Radio.was this the the opposite loft where the lights flickered
and the country music station played
??