Hi Peng,
The analogy fits, because the people who buy the $10k wires
do "hear" the difference between $100 wires...and they also say "regardless of graphs and measured data". That's the key. When your subjectivist preference starts to rely on anything but your personal choice, like measured data, then it's always "regardless of graphs and measured..."
When the "graphs and measured data" match your subjective preference, they are all good and to be regarded. When they don't, they are no good and "regardless"...
The concert (production of live acoustic music) is purely subjective. There is nothing to measure or graph there (except maybe your enjoyment
).
When you capture the soundwaves of the concert electro-acoustically, store them on electronic media, then reproduce them via an electro-acoustic system, then it's no longer "regardless of graphs and measured". Its
electronic and acoustic....measurable and graphic, no longer "regardless". The entire system used (your stereo) is based entirely on scientific principles, not subjective dreams. Your perception of it is subjective, but the reproduced soundwaves from the system are very much measurable and objectively quantifiable. Regardless of your understanding and ability to interpret them.
cheers,
AJ