Reading some few reviews of various parts of a music set up chain, I found reviewers use qualitative values to rate a product. I have not read a lot of reviews, but all that I read are using some examples to express quality of a product. Like we express joy of freshness with examples of fresh air, morning dew, green vegetables.
But I never saw someone giving rating a product by its every attributes.
Overall rating in build, sound, appearance etcetera are to me still a broad set of attributes. And hence they are more towards qualitative rating.
How about making a standard to have quantitative rating system for audio products' audio quality.
For that we need to set which attributes we should rate.
Then, we can have some fixed popular music (among audiophiles) of preset format for highest quality available in common. Two audition CD of Dali and one having "Hotel California" immediately comes to my mind.
Then we each can rate our own system and then can match other's rating to judge measurement system's reproductability and reproducibility.
I think it is better to take step by step approach.
I suggest to start with making a measurement system for speakers. So, we need to first fix attributes for checking.
I am not at all a right person to fix these attributes.
I can only suggest following with a rating scale of 1 to 10. Request others to feed in their opinion.
1) Female voice representation (presence)
2) Male voice representation (presence)
3) Attack
4) Decay
5) Silence
6) separation (I like to test it with sounds of claps)
7) Depth
8) imaging
9) staging
10) presence (drama) like live acoustic performance without electric & electronic support
11) Ability to represent public performance using electric and electronic support
Let us complete this list first.
But I never saw someone giving rating a product by its every attributes.
Overall rating in build, sound, appearance etcetera are to me still a broad set of attributes. And hence they are more towards qualitative rating.
How about making a standard to have quantitative rating system for audio products' audio quality.
For that we need to set which attributes we should rate.
Then, we can have some fixed popular music (among audiophiles) of preset format for highest quality available in common. Two audition CD of Dali and one having "Hotel California" immediately comes to my mind.
Then we each can rate our own system and then can match other's rating to judge measurement system's reproductability and reproducibility.
I think it is better to take step by step approach.
I suggest to start with making a measurement system for speakers. So, we need to first fix attributes for checking.
I am not at all a right person to fix these attributes.
I can only suggest following with a rating scale of 1 to 10. Request others to feed in their opinion.
1) Female voice representation (presence)
2) Male voice representation (presence)
3) Attack
4) Decay
5) Silence
6) separation (I like to test it with sounds of claps)
7) Depth
8) imaging
9) staging
10) presence (drama) like live acoustic performance without electric & electronic support
11) Ability to represent public performance using electric and electronic support
Let us complete this list first.