One thing you often hear from the 'subjectivist' camp, is that measurements of a single component don't tell the whole story - rather the entire playback system interacts in complex ways, leading to 'synergy' or 'matching'.
It seems this is easily testable: Measure the same speakers in the same room, changing only the electronics from test to test. To ensure rigor, you could easily have the electronics in a separate room, and run all measurements inside the room remotely, to ensure that there are absolutely no differences test to test.
Comparing the results should show whether a particular amp-speaker pairing, for example is more bass-heavy than the same speakers driven by a different amp. You could easily control for any variable - whether you wanted to test preamps or amps or any other part of the signal chain.
Has this ever been attempted? Are there issues with the test methodology?
It seems this is easily testable: Measure the same speakers in the same room, changing only the electronics from test to test. To ensure rigor, you could easily have the electronics in a separate room, and run all measurements inside the room remotely, to ensure that there are absolutely no differences test to test.
Comparing the results should show whether a particular amp-speaker pairing, for example is more bass-heavy than the same speakers driven by a different amp. You could easily control for any variable - whether you wanted to test preamps or amps or any other part of the signal chain.
Has this ever been attempted? Are there issues with the test methodology?
