Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:48:46 -0000, "JustMe" wrote:

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But, as I have explained repeatedly, any discussion of a subjective issue
is, by its nature, merely opinion and not fact and, therefore, there is no
need to insert the qualifying "IMO".


Actually no, as level-matched DBTs are by their very nature
subjective, but do give us true information regarding what is *really*
audible.

And the DBTs, by nurture, do for some (you obviously) create an
objective realm. A couple of things:

Is what is audible all that counts? Not a troll (really!) but I'm afraid
I've been reading HFW. Without going in to the merits or otherwise of
that organ I'm loosely curious - not the extent of actually buying any
of the stuff they mention to bolster their argument - by the notion of
sound outside the audible range having an effect on 'the act of
listening' - vibrations especially, and a specific reference to
supertweeters and subwoofers. You can't 'hear a note' but 'sense a
presence'.

And I think, from distant memory, that 'Which?' use DBTs and they (their
panel) quite readily find differences between amplifiers, CDPs and DVDAs
- devices of (to all intents and purposes) identical measurement.

Rob