GaryB;185590 Wrote: > Do you mean to say that listening results have no place in a review? > That's certainly not a view I would support. For those of you old > enough to remember Stereo Review magazine > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_Review) - towards the end it was > only measurements and totally worthless in helping one decide what > components were worthwile. >
Well, they do have a place when they're controlled. If the reviewer thinks there's an audible difference, s/he should do a controlled listening test to make sure, and if it's really there try to describe it both subjectively and by a measurement. For example in a speaker review (where the differences with other speakers are typically easily audible) it can be useful to describe the sound subjectively, to complement and interpret measurements of frequency response. Checking your facts and backing them up with solid sources - that's just basic journalism. Reviewing audio equipment based only on uncontrolled listening impressions is a bit like a newspaper reporter basing a supposedly factual article on their opinion instead of reliable sources. News journalists that do that get fired. shane Wrote: > > So do you need to understand how it works before you can hear a > difference? He didn't say that. He said the notion that the TP as a DAC could sound better than TP as a source is absurd, because he designed and tested the thing and he knows the TP as DAC will have a (slightly) more distorted output. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
