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Originally Posted by mezzanine
I think the answer is in the unreliability of people's perceptions, generally. This is a problem I'm very conscious of in high end audio. When people are asked to find differences in nearly identical objects, often they'll invent them even though they don't exist.
There's the definitional problem, as you mentioned in an earlier post the Sage is "sharper" than the PW5. The word sharp connotes resolution even though I think you must be referring to contrast.
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So your opinion is that we all see nonexistent differences? Sorry, but that's not something I can believe. I know what my eyes see and that's what matters to me. As I've said before, real life experience is vastly more important to most people than the specs on paper. You seem to think that if something is written in the specs, then that is the absolute and highest truth and everything else is an illusion. A very weird belief IMO.
As to the word "sharp", I mean exactly that. I see the text on the Sage is sharper and on the Oasis fuzzier. That's not the same as the contrast. Contrast is different when the text on one is darker than on the other.