"Fella" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

"Fella" wrote in message
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Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


Fact- it is trivially easy to measure a level difference of 0.01dB,
and it is not that difficult to measure a difference of 0.001dB, which
is more than a hundred times less than any human can detect.

I'm going to ask you a question, in a civilized manner. Let's see how you
are going to answer.. If at all.

Here goes; Is the perception and interpretation of music we hear from a
given hifi system *ALL* about DB level changes?




No, there's SNR, 'dynamics', bitrates and noise floor to take into
consideration

And that's all? When you know all those, you also know what I am hearing
and perhaps also, interpreting what I am hearing?

- if these are all in the right area then it doesn't matter what the
music actually *sounds* like...

Can you explain what you mean by that? if "SNR, (signal to noise ratio)
'dynamics', bitrates and noise floor" are all in the "right area" (what
does that mean?) "then it doesn't matter what the music actually *sounds*
like" (What does that mean. I know the meanings of the individual words,
but as a phrase, a sentence, it did not compute. Thanks.



I'm off out and can't get into it right now, just take it that, having an
*entirely free hand* to choose and after a lot of trial and error over the
recent years, I find I greatly prefer valves to SS and vinyl to CD despite
what the figures and techies say.

It's all about *sound quality* and not *signal quality* in my book....