mlsstl;690362 Wrote: > To be fair to all parties, it is also important to define what > constitutes "listening". > > If it means hooking the final design up to a system and seeing if it > sounds good and exhibits no aberrant behavior under load, then I'm > positive that every piece of audio equipment qualifies to one extent or > another. > > If "listening" means blind testing under truly neutral conditions, then > perhaps quite a few pieces don't meet that standard. However, I'd > suspect that is more true for the gear that is popular with the high > end segment of the audiophile crowd. > > If "listening" means sighted conditions with extended navel-gazing and > a search for flowery hyperbole, then perhaps there are a number of > engineers who don't meet that standard when they audition their > designs. > > As always, it's tough to have conversations when there isn't a common > consensus as to what words mean. Rofl
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