You are quite right that meters have lousy musical taste, and not much better taste in movies (but I guess Hollywood doesn't display much taste in movies either)...Anyway, Look at it this way. Measurements are only a tool to help dig out problems when they are suspected - they give hard numbers that can point to a resolution of a problem: comparasons can be made objectively on things like noise. Otherwise a lot of time can be wasted on guesswork. As a finance guy, do you _guess_ how much money is coming in or going out? (I'm assuming you don't work for Enron) No, numbers do that. Measurements have nothing to do with musical judgements, or sound quality ones either - I don't listen to my meters about music, and they don't listen to me about numbers. We co-exist.


[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited October 06, 2002).]