As I have pointed out over the past few days, measurement and perception don’t always walk hand in hand.
It’s tempting to believe the oscilloscope or AP over your own ears. I get it. Numbers are comforting. They don’t argue back. But in audio, they only tell part of the story. We've all heard gear that measures beautifully yet sounds sterile, and others that break the rules but move us deeply.
Take loudspeaker design. If you just go by anechoic measurements, you’d miss out on how that speaker interacts with a room, how it breathes in the space. That's why we rely on both measurements and long-term listening when we voice our speakers.
In the end, our ears are the final arbiters. Music is a human experience, not a lab experiment.
