the tests i do are enough for me, thanks
Tho since i bought the interface to do comparisons (on youtube) it might be easy to A/B with the recorded files and everyone else is free todo so too later on
probably cant convince most objectivists anyway since even if they hear a difference they will find a reason to invalidate any records... but if anyone is interested, i made a thread over there a while ago https://www.head-fi.org/threads/wou...his-youtube-listening-and-blind-tests.972120/
I understand your point, you hear it so it can’t be wrong. On the face of it that is quite rational.
However it doesn’t remove the fact that human hearing isn’t the infallible listening machine that audiophiles believe it is.
Since you are interested enough in audio to mess with the stuff that you do it would not be much of a stretch to do a little research about the human auditory system and the affects of external and internal stimuli on our perception of sound.
Music can sound better on a nice day when you are in a good mood and relaxed.
I know music can sound better after a couple of beers but much worse after a couple of beers to many.
Music can sound worse if you are uptight or anxious or even if you listen intently and dissect it too far.
If given appropriate misdirection music can sound different from the exact same equipment only minutes apart if you think you are listening to different gear but actually aren’t.
The list goes on, you must have experienced some of this sort of thing.
If you are interested enough in audio to do the other messing around you talk about doesn’t it interest you to understand what you perceive as sound and why you perceive different sound when no actual difference exists like in some of my examples above, some of which I assume you have experienced yourself.
You can literally hear different sound just because of what you eyes convey to your brain. Take two minutes and look up “McGurk Effect” on You Tube. You can literally see/hear your auditory system being completely fooled by stimulus from your eyes. If your perception of sound is so easily fooled by a You Tube video doesn’t that make you wonder what else you are hearing that maybe isn’t real at all ?
If you are not interested that is fine, you are certainly not alone, but until you have a basic understanding of the unreliability of our auditory system how can you confidently say what actually makes a difference to sound and sound quality that you perceive ?
So far it seems you are interested in what makes the air move not what our ears and brain create from that moving air and what other stimulus might affect the perception of sound that our brain creates.