If you had read my statements carefully, you would have understood what I have always been maintaining. That measurements are the building block of a good design that ensures that the product meets certain specifications. The designer then builds up from there to get the sound that he wants. I have always maintained that measurements and hearings (or sound and music) are complimentary, not contradictory, nor opposing. But, if you say measurements are meaningless and only hearing matters, then I am afraid you are wrong.
One of the issues with hearing is that the outcome is very subjective. For example if I blindfold a man, and make him hear a amp that has a measurable high noise to signal ratio, and he says he likes the music and that it is good - what do we conclude? That he does not know music or that he is lying? That is the reason most blindfold tests have consistently failed.
Even seasoned auditioning experts have consistently come to wrong conclusions when they have undergone blind tests. Every time you change your source, amp, speakers, or even cables, you hear a different sound, even if the variations are very minor. But the sound is different. Which is better? What you hear before or what you are hearing now? You will look like a fool if you say the wrong thing. So what do you do? You end up making mistakes.
Add this to the fact that we all have different tastes for music and ways to listen to it. I like to play my music softly is a quiet room. Someone else may like to blast his ears at 90dB. I like drums to be tight. Someone else may like drums to be boomy and rolling.
Measurements (whatever they measure) have no such biases. They truthfully tell you what they are 'hearing' and, in that sense, are more consistent and reliable.
Cheers
