Disillusion,
I'm sorry that my post have made you feel insecure; that's MY BAD, I don't mean to make anyone feel bad.
Let me make some excuses.I was just making explicit the obvious difference between first-hand doers and outside-commentators. Opinions coming from the two different camps are, while both being valid as what they are, not the same thing. Lumping them together as the same type/level/class of opinions really doesn't help people formulate good decision, because accurately knowing how to read each -not just what to read about- helps making a better decision.That's my point. So nothing really fancy in my posts. Sorry if I made you feel you've been nitpicked by what I said...
Just because there's Goedel-Chaitin uncertainty theorem (i.e. mathematical proofs that perfect system cannot exist, including the mathematical system itself) doesn't mean we should never use math anymore. Just because Einstein's theory of relativity surpassed Newtonian physics (i.e. after passing certain light-years distance from the earth, Classical physics loses its theoretical predictability of the behavior of planets) doesn't make Newton's physics useless.Or, just because we "know" that the earth is round doesn't mean it's nonsense to think the land is flat, or just because the earth revolves around the sun doesn't mean we no longer observe how sun goes up and down instead of we moving around it.
So, I don't think I'm saying anything against you. Like you consistently imply, there's not absolute truth, which also means the very idea of "individual difference" is also not absolute truth. For example, we all speak the same English and never confuse that with, say, Japanese. Individual variation exists within the boundary of English, but there's no individual difference in hearing Japanese as being English or vice versa. English and Japanese are much more different from one another than the individual difference within just English speakers. Juxtaposing the two type/level/class of difference as "equally different matter" introduces more errors than helping people make accurate decision about them, because we humans operate by opinions including one's own.
So, just because everything is just opinion, or no measurements are perfect, doesn't invalidate people's gut to draw insightful conclusions about the both dt250s. I personally take such gut being "central" matter in life, while in comparison critiquing some flaws contained within the same effort being indispensable yet "peripheral".
People who spend time to share their listening experience -while acknowledging their imperfections- as everyone here does, have always-already subsumed the idea of "everything is just my opinion and measurements are never perfect" as constituent parts of their argument. Why single out the parts (i.e. subclass) and juxtapose them with the whole (i.e. superclass)? Confusions introduced by such erroneous juxtaposition never help anyone making good decisions, so it kinda motivated me to say something about it. Sorry again if I made you feel insecure in any way; I've been genuinely thinking about people who are taking interests in dt250s because I was once being one of those. I was luckily enough to be able to hear what donunus says about dt250s, and thought I add my own impression on the matter.