Originally Posted by
Marco
Sure, Dennis, but you're missing the point. I meant simply in terms of both the design of loudspeakers or electronics following a 'recipe', using various 'ingredients'. Capacitors, resistors, inductors, diodes, transistors, etc, are essentially 'ingredients' of a recipe to make loudspeaker crossovers or amplifiers, just as much as, say, the ingredients that make up a cake.
And all impart their own unique flavour, or in the case of electrical components, produced by different manufacturers, 'sonic signature' on the circuit in question, and which rather importantly, considering what we're discussing, can't be measured.
Therefore, for that *very* reason you need EARS (good ones) to successfully 'marry' those ingredients (along with the various sonic signatures), in order to allow the speakers or electronics in question to produce a lifelike and realistic sound [one that can do proper justice to recorded music], which experience tells me measurements ALONE can't.
Ok that's fine, but how do you square these two earlier comments:
And:
So... If the ear can be quite easily deceived (which to an extent I agree with), then what value is there in employing "trained" ones to voice your loudspeakers, which you clearly hope ATC have done? "Trained" or otherwise, they still have the propensity for being deceived.
Therefore, just use measurements alone and be done with it, surely?
Marco.