Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
Ears are the best tool and the only things that tell you how the sound is. Hi-Fi equipment can measure very well, yet still not sound right.
Suppose you go to a dealer and dem a system, play all sorts of tracks over an hour or so. You like it, buy it, take it home. After a while you realise you are avoiding playing some albums because they don't sound right. a bit hard, or rough, whatever.

You can't take it back, it isn't faulty, so you start upgrading from there, using the same process. But if you don't upgrade the thing that is causing the issue then you won't solve the problem. But you don't know what is causing the issue, so you go through ten sets of speakers when all along it was the amp.

Ears alone are not enough.