Audiophile Myth - Objective vs Subjective

Enjoy the sound, enjoy the music, and enjoy listening…

[scottlowell]

When you talk to any high end snob, they won't delineate between opinion and fact. When they speak, they make declarations, never admitting its subjective opinion. Anyone who argues with them is dismissed as ignorant or having poor hearing.

[howardskeivys]

A mam’s preference as to how he likes to hear music reproduced is as varied and individual as his preference in women. Young, slim and brunette. Curvaceous and blond. Athletic and ginger. Or, any combination of all of them.

[douglassmith]

My personal opinion is that I think that comes down to the justification of cost let's face the facts audio is an expensive hobby

[maybecrazy]

Even digital music is analog by the time it hits the ears. The video commentary is misleading in its example. Resolution in DACs can far exceed what the ear can detect, and one should realize that the impulse response of any speaker tends to be miles behind that needed to faithfully reproduce the signal. Perhaps it's better to suggest that those who find digital music harsh, are hearing the combined effect of increased resolution in the signal converted to analog that a speaker cannot produce aptly, and thus it distorts it. The issue is then not analog vs digital, but just getting better speakers. The Shannon-Nyquist theorem is a falsifiable theorem, but nobody has managed it. The idea that digital is somehow fatiguing to people is not so much them identifying digital source as a problem, but an artifice of the entire system reproduction of the signal after it has converted to analog and is replayed over the speakers.