Psychoacoustics on Decades of Musings on HiFi /topics/psychoacoustics/ Recent content in Psychoacoustics on Decades of Musings on HiFi Hugo en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Audio Heretick's Progress /articles/audio-hereticks-progress/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /articles/audio-hereticks-progress/ <h2 id="tldr">TL;DR</h2> <p>Measurements and listening agree only at the extremes. Better numbers can sound worse, worse numbers can sound better. And there is nothing fixed to be faithful to: studio, microphone, master and loudspeaker each change the signal. High fidelity is not difficult. It is impossible.</p> <p>What a good HiFi system delivers is a credible illusion of listening to music. It is an illusion engine, and the people who build good ones are closer to magicians than to engineers.</p>