magiccarpetride;611141 Wrote: 
> Even if you haven't changed any component in your system, and are
> listening to the same track again, something else in your surroundings
> has changed (including your own conditions), and that change influences
> how you experience the second replay of the same track.

The problem with your illustration is it has nothing to do with audio
equipment. Rather it deals with epistemological issues that are better
suited to philosophical discussions than measurement. 

Your subjective experience, influenced by time of day, your mood, your
immediately preceding experience and dozens of other factors that have
nothing to do with the physical state of the stereo equipment, cannot
be transferred to others. 

They cannot even be precisely replicated for you, so there is nothing
to measure. 

If your original question includes all of those non-audio variables,
you have constructed a question that cannot be answered. 

If you limit the question to physical changes in the stereo that change
what a person hears, then yes, I believe it probably can be measured.
However, it would be a challenge with current technology to assume that
we've spotted everything that can be measured.

The problem is that many listeners cannot be content with simply having
an experience. They want to elevate their personal observation to some
type of universal certainty.


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