av_phile1..thanx for info... ah ganon p0 pala un. imo maski ano pa man test result lumabas eh the individual end-user's ears pa rin ang masusunod. Pag-uwi, i wont b listening to graphs statistics but to my kinda' music. Lagi ko nakikita d2 audition,audition, audition...pero iba ung shop environment acoustics kesa sa sarili mo home. At pag IC at spkr cables sana pwede home audition sa actual gears na paggagamitan para malaman kung mag-match sa system mo (suit your taste)... just my mamera 
Yup, at the end of the day, it's your ears that must indulge in this highly personal, self-centric hobby. Science, statistics, engineering principles would not increase or decrease your listening pleasures one bit. They are irrelevant in enjoying this hobby. Nevermind that Nyquist theorems made your CD and DVD possible. Nevermind that Kirchoff's Laws made possible your amplifer circuits. Nevermind that Inductance, capacitance and resistance are all that matters in the constuction of cables and interconnects. For the audiophile consumer, none of these really matter. You don't think about sound waves diffracting or reflecting when you listen to Madonna or watch Saving Private Ryan. You don't imagine digital square waves streaming through the DAC and coming out as reconstituted waveforms when listening to Eric Capton. Nope, you just listen and let your ears bring you to sonic nirvana. Whether your nirvana is caused by a Yamaha or a Bryston, by a Coincident or a Wharfedale, by an AudioPro or a Van Den Hull, the only important thing is you're in Sonic Nirvana. Science may have much to say in constructing those gears, but it has nothing to do with the pleasures of an indulgence.
The audiophile hobby is a personal one, subjective and self-centered where all the biases, perceptions and values of the person come to bear. That is why this forum and others always recommend AUDITION, AUDITION, AUDITION. This hobby is all about an indulgence of the ears, among other senses. At the end of the day, your gears will either impress your ears or they won't.
But precisely because the hobby is a personal indulgence, whatever experience you get from it is confined to the personal level. Whatever you say about such experience must be confined to a personal OPINION. Others may share your opinion. But they remain as opinions.
When your personal experience result in a claim that you "heard a difference" or that your new gears "made a big difference," they are opinions. They are your "2-cents worth." Unless these experiential observations can be understood from scientifically established engineering principles, they remain as opinions.
It's entirely different when we talk about the FACTS behind this hobby. And there are many facts borne out of established engineering principles which in turn are predicated by the sciences. STATISTICS is a tool for scientific research that places rigourous standard and method in quantifying observable phenomenon to make an assumption valid and scientifically acceptable. Double Blind Test is a statistical method for verifying an assumption using those same rigors and eliminating such variables as personal bias and preferences and psychological dispositions. Whether one likes it or not, a DBT statistical result is the ONLY acceptable method for verifying perceived assumptions in the scientific community.
The results of various DBTs has from time to time contradicted personal aural experiences or at least failed to affirm them. Reviewers and audiophiles coming home from a DBT session will always cherish their Krells and Thetas and Audioquests regardless of the fact that the DBT session had failed to establish any significant statitical trending that sonic and audible difference exists between an ordinary Yamaha and a Krell, or between a hardware ZIP chord and an Audioquest. I doubt if they'd throw away their expensive set-up despite the uncontestible results that the DBT session they participated in proved them to be more audiophools than audiophiles. But, so what. Like I said, this hobby is highly personal. And for the most part, your wallet dictates what goes into the racks. As long as you can afford it, why economize your indulgence? On top of that, this hobby is MORE than just getting the right amps, players and speakers or cables to satisfy your ears. I think that's just 25%. Another 25% is to satisfy the WAF.
The last 50% of the hobby involves satisfying the ego, the social status, the pride of ownership and the bragging rights.
Nothing that science and statistics tell you will amount to anything because in this hobby, apart from personal biases and the psychological make-up of the person, the laws of supply and demand can be more compelling than the laws of physics.
