I believe that you can be a subjectivist and an objectivist at the same time. In fact, I believe that this is a characteristic of our most brilliant equipment designers. A possible scnario: They happen upon a certain design characteristic that (subjectively) blows them away with the...
Lee, I am certainly not beating up on science, and your points on jitter were well said. What I was trying to do with this thread was to show how subjective listening and objective science are intertwined. That when we firstly percieve "something" that we can't explain, we need science to try to...
Angelo, I put this thread in the Sources section as much of the objectivist/subjectivist discussions I've read often revolves around analog vs. digital, jitter, 16-bit vs. 24-bit, etc. What do I want from science? Firstly, a series of measurements which correlates very closely to what...
I've read many threads on this website, especially in the Audio/Video Sources page, where debates get into objective vs. subjective points of view. The most common debate centers around golden-ear subjectivists who hear things that scientific objectivists can't measure. I think many of you...