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Last week in his Audiophiliac blog, Steve Guttenberg mused about how audio measurements relate to sound quality. He concluded that objective measurements do not correlate with subjective evaluations, primarily because well-defined test tones have little to do with real musical signals.

Here at HomeTheater.com, we've certainly observed that poor measurements do not necessarily mean poor subjective performance, and that good measurements do not necessarily reflect good performance. On the other hand, in our experience, measurements sometimes support—and even explain—a reviewer's subjective observations, which are always conducted before the measurements.

Do you think that objective audio measurements using test tones correlate with subjective sound quality playing music? If so, is it a strong or weak correlation? In the comments, I'd love to know how much weight you give the measurements found in our reviews compared with the reviewer's subjective assessment.

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