Quote Originally Posted by theaudiohobby
. A digital component does not have to measure atrociously to sound good and vice versa. Comments like 'believeable reproduction of actual instruments vs. believable reproduction of a processed signal' have absolutely no merit when analysed very closely because if they did, the quality of a recording will cease to be an issue and arguments about analog/digital recordings etc would have very little merit.
Yes, and also a digital component doesn't have to measure well to sound good. And I disagree that my comment you quoted has no merit. You're talking about two separate issues as though they were the same. They aren't.