[Arny Krueger]

"Scott" wrote in message

On Jan 29, 5:09=A0pm, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:
"Scott" wrote in message



Depends on how one measures success or failure.

Which in turn depends on the criteria used to judge
success or failure.

=A0If one is measuring success by the ability of the
equipment to create an aural illusion of live music the
high end gear
wins hands down and the Sansa clip with the IEMs is the
abject failure.

What criteria is being used here - some reliable
standard or something completely subjective?

That is a false dichotomy.

When measured carefully
subjective opinion can be quite reliable and consistant.

That is of course completely untrue since published subjective reviews
typically have each author using different words to describe the sounds they
hear. If the reveiws were reliable and consistent then they would use the
same words. Words have meaning and different words have different meaning.

The point here is that there are no generally agreed-upon standards for the
words used in subjective reviews. Virtually every subjective review is
therefore inconsistent with all other subjective reviews, and therefore
these subjective reviews are neither reliable nor consistent.