Dac Sounds

[M0N]

@case-henry

Why is it that the measurement crowd (and I’m not suggesting that measurements have no place) never acknowledge that people have ears???

Because they want “objective” data and therefore it can’t involve humans, their goal is to find what looks the best to a machine, not sounds the best to a human (of course there are people who are actually reasonable with measurements, but they aren’t the majority anymore)

@case-henry

The sounds that please us are often personal, measurements are for “one size fits all” type people IMO.

I mean measurements just aren’t for people, at all. Said this on another thread and that’s just generally how I view measurements at this point

@M0N

IMO measurements are actually subjective most of the time given how they are used. Because you can have measurement data that you take (actually objective, let’s ignore measurement methodology for simplicity lol), but the moment you interpret that data and say higher sinad = better or whatever, you now have voiced a subjective opinion on objective data. IMO it really is just a waste to try and objectify a hobby that is almost purely subjective. Go try and objectify art while you are at it. Nothing wrong with trying to use objective data to explain what you are hearing, but there is a problem to use objective data to determine what you hear. Use measurements to back up your listening, not listening to back up your measurements if you have to bring it up

Although this thread isn’t exactly about measurements it’s good to mention that, since measurements are constantly used to try and convince people there’s no benefit from going higher with a dac