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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
I wondered which sort of golden-eared people Martin meant.
He could have used the words in a derogatory sense meaning those who are only lightly burdened by reality.
But he could equally well have meant it appreciatively, meaning people experienced in listening critically. Orchestral conductors, record producers, mix-down operators... People who could say "The cymbal sounded better recorded with the mike plugged into channel X than it did into channel Y" without trying to tell you they could hear which direction the capacitors were wound in.
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Thanks! I had assumed the first kind of "golden ears" without giving it too much thought. But upon reflection, the second kind seems equally or even more likely. In which case it is QED - a "lesser" device used well and within its reasonable working envelope can match a "superior" device in some applications.
Cheers,