Thank you all for your responses, most of you are very kind while some others quite embittered. I am new here and am unaware of all the conventions in play.
However, I thought to stimulate some debate over my findings (quite a simple test) would be a good thing and not made with any malice towards member’s expectations in this forum. And no, I am not a troll or the other things that people have assumed I am. I have been investing in HiFi for 45 years and enjoy the hobby. I do build gear and look at measurements but consider these as an adjunct to my listening experience. After all, science is a human construct used to help explain what we see, hear, taste, smell and feel which includes our emotions. Science today is looking much deeper into ‘who’ we are and how we can measure this. Psychoacoustics is a branch of psychophysics so shouldn’t we see the value in our perceptions and take this into account when making our audio purchases. Surely members in this forum don’t go out and buy audio gear based on measurement alone.
Those of you who have carefully read my review probably have noticed I have used some ‘science’ to get the best out of my room and associated equipment. The single and most critical aspect of the resolve of audio equipment is the room used for playback. I have measured the room and carefully placed acoustic treatments (within reasonable cost). I also did some measurements on playback levels but as I said the results had me pondering. I have compared equipment and traded off performance measurements in order to achieve what I think is pleasing to the ear and my emotions. Yes, everything in our world has tradeoffs especially in the types of distortion imbedded in equipment. I did mention my hearing will be different, what I didn’t mention is I used my wife and my son in blind tests to determine if my brain was interpreting different cues to theirs. I often do this. Turns out all three of us were on the money with only some slight disagreement…again based on people’s tastes. While I had their attention I conducted some blind tests on some cables I had constructed, turns out the differences were not apparent between mine, least expensive and most expensive. Cable’s resistance measured was also close to identical.
Anyhow that’s me, I am human, with many imperfections and not an accumulation of highly tuned electronics. As a human I do review measurements when I purchase audio gear. This ‘blending’ of science and being human is half the fun of the hobby and gets people talking about their experiences. Do you agree?