Talk:Audio quality measurement

I do not agree with merging this article as I specifically started it rather than take on the daunting task of trying to correct an article which I consider to be almost totally erroneous. I intend to try to clean up the other article when I have time, and I do think the two articles can be made to fairly reflect differing views that exist regarding measurement. --Lindosland 00:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

This article (even by the authors admission in this Talk) is trying to set itself in a position contrary to the Audio System Measurements article which attempts to describe the techniques employed. If any author wishes to correct errors or omissions then that's fine but to use technical Wikipedia articles as platforms for opinions or advertising should be avoided. This article should be merged or, better still, deleted. Clive01 10:27, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Not true. An article on audio systems measurements is not an article on audio quality measurements. The former can be many and pointless, the latter relate to subjective effect. Thus the commonly used THD measurement is an engineering concept, but no-one claims that it is related to subjectively experienced distortion except in the vaguest of ways (this has been a big topic of discussion for fifty years and more). Audio quality measurement is something that many people think they know about, while in fact they know nothing of developments since the 1950's. There therefore exists a huge amount of 'disinformation' in my opinion, a phenomenon that is common on the web, where quantity does not indicate quality. Rather than confuse matters by trying to explain all this in the one existing article on audio system measurements I chose to indicate in that article that there was a subset of measurements that were related to subjective quality measurement, and then to link to a complete set of pages on such measurements. I think that is quite fair. If you think something in these articles is not true or widely acknowledged, by all means say so here, but you might first consider that they are based on the content of the 'Audio Engineers Reference Book', a respected reference work, which I, being considered an expert in the field, was invited to write. I do not consider anything here to be advertising, or solely my opinion. --Lindosland 14:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)