Makes a real difference in what? ... You can't answer that. You cant answer that because you've dug yourself to far into your own BS so as not be able to answer that with out sounding like an audiophool. What are you going to say. According to the specs it has low distortion. Wtf does low distortion mean?. It means you've got clarity and resolution. You can start hearing instrument detail and air. OMG i must be delusional i am refering to resolution from low distortion. I guess i am an audiophool.
You see where i am going with this. Specs are just specs. Unless you can communicate what those specs mean interms of what you hear then you are only communicating one part of what this hobby is all about. You are missing the whole point of this hobby. People who only talk about specs and nothing else are the real audiophools in this hobby. Thats pretty easy to see.
Anyways, one of the biggest jokes i laugh about are those speccy guys who haven't figured out that test subjects in any listening procedure are human. Being able to hear and communicate has nothing to do with electricity in electronics. Its psychological issue. The test subjects are human and not the equipment. So if you are going to test hearing EEs please stay away. They are no more qualified in commenting about why people hear things then Puffy the space dog with a rocket launcher attached to its ass.....
1. There is a lot more to it than a single harmonic distortion statistic.
2. When you know about slew rates, biasing transistors, the different response characteristics of different types of transistors, negative feedback etc you can get back to me. Im not here to give an EE lecture - simply point out that it isnt magical properties which make this stuff work and good engineering
3. Sound systems are not a musical device, or responsible for creating music. They are there for sound reproduction
4. It only makes sense to understand why you are hearing what you are - unfortunately so,e when faced with the very real reality of psycho acoustics and placebo effects don't like it
5. The claims of what can and cant be measured by those who admit themselves they arent technical experts are often rubbish. Once again, anything you hear can actually be measured in terms of signal reproduction. Not just statistics but looking at the actual waveform
6. I couldnt care less when or where you laugh at, particularly on areas well out of your expertise.
There is no logical reason to not understand and measure what people hear including some tests to isolate whether the listener is responsible for the change from a psychological perspective. The evidence supporting this has been verified over and over, no one said anything about choosing systems based in specs but it is about understanding the differences heard and eliminating the listener as a variable, if you want accurate reproduction.
So no, there is no hole... The irony that listeners rely on the experience and technical knowledge of the engineers in the first place that builds the equipment, yet choose to ignore the science after it leaves the factory is ironic.
Omce again, if people want to believe their choice to tinker is making a difference, thats what they will hear. Confirmation bias is a very strong effect and very well known.
Many so called audiophiles hang on to a romantic notion that their tweaking and upgrades are making incredible differences when all that really changes is their own perception.
Audio reproduction isnt based magic and as such certain tweaks based on misguided beliefs rather than science only affect the listener, not the signal in the system.
