One of the greatest misconceptions in all of Audiophiledom is the notion that measurements are objective. Only if you regularly confuse empirical measures of y

One of the greatest misconceptions in all of Audiophiledom is the notion that measurements are objective. Only if you regularly confuse empirical measures of your machine with subjective listener assessments of stuff you play through it -- which, as far as I can tell, is what the audiophile scene is defined by. We can, should, and do make objective measurements of systems all the time. We then build a model (poorly or well) that attempts to relate changes in the system described by those measurements to changes in subjective perception by one or more listeners. At which point, a conscious human is in the loop, and all bets are off. Every once in a while, what little of audiophile-woo that I have read almost reinvents double-blind psychometric studies. And then they don't quite get there, mostly.