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Maybe their views on the technical outcomes of measurements are the same as the engineers who studied it in school but this says nothing about human perception of sound waves. Psychoacoustics needs to play a larger role in the design of equipment in a systematic way that it is not currently being done...except by hundreds of thousands of listeners in informal settings.

Nearly everything about the technical performance of a piece of equipment CAN be measured (this, however, would be very tedious and time consuming not to mention expensive) but what so far has been elusive is the correlation between those measured parameters and how listeners react to the sound being generated by that system. Of course most companies don't bother with measuring everything that CAN be measured and most stick with what is convenient and standard to measure.

This is an aspect that most engineers would rather not delve into, preferring to design to prescribed criteria rather than understanding which of those criteria are really important to optimize, which ones are meaningless, and which new ones that are relevant need to be employed to make a better sounding product.

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