Consensus on a good sounding system

How often do we need to agree upon if a setup sounded good to one's hearing? The answer would be probably not! As human we can't agree upon anything, in fact nothing at all, unless we are signatories to an agreement! So will an arbitration by say 10 or even 100 learned & experienced audiophiles to listen to a setup(which could only be conducted at different times), be or would be able to judge if a setup to be considered good sounding, if even at all? Again probably not! Why is it so difficult to even judge if a setup sounded good enough to meet some of the important hifi parameters of good sound? Personal preferences, prejudices, likes and dislikes, used to a certain signature sound, and not used to other types of presentations?


Do you think that experienced audiophiles could provide some insights into this 'All Time Arguments' as to why different persons would perceived the sound reproduction of a system to various degree of excellence or lack of it for that matter? We have seen/read arguments some even out of hand in some blogs, forums and mailing lists, as to what quality of sound constituted.
Will there be a sort of ISO for music/sound reproductions in the near future?

Audio Terrorists of Blogs

There are audiophiles and there are audiophiles of many kinds. One of the modern day of internet, found only in the audio circles are the 'audio terrorists'!!! The kind that is utterly unhappy about what is written except maybe the sort of writings that he/she tended to write or want to be able to endorse, to be allowable to the audio public for reading. The vigilante who goes around reading the various blogs to check out and weed out those he/she deemed who do not conform to their way of thinking and verbal expression. 1st these audio terrorists will when first appearing at a blog will at the very start, antagonize the writer/ blog owner while at the same time wish to get information useful to himself only. That's the sign number 1. Whether this being a personal attack on the writer is yet another issue, someone the writer knows and that they have never agree on many issues. A audio terrorist who is vindictive and has a long memory of past unpleasant events. A person who is badly hurt perhaps and can't let bygones be bygones. On the other hand if it's not a personal attack but one out of habitual/obsessive impulses, then I recalled psychiatrist called a manifestation of a troubled childhood, one of a failed sex life or an inability of a shared married life. 2nd, sign number 2, they usually are not able to relate themselves to the topic writer, being unable to communicate their intent(s) and purpose, they tended to show some sort of aggression in their line of questionings and think that anyone they encounter on the 'net owes them a favor/an answer/an explanation/a greeting. Never thought that they have to be nice to others to be able to receive the same treatments. 3rd the audio terrorist take it upon themselves to be the vigilante to 'clean up' the seemingly mess he thinks has being around long enough. Anyone else who gets in their way will also be brutally 'mulled' down. It will be always their world with the exclusion of all others they don't like. Sort of the pond is not big enough for all fishes! If these sort of repeated attacks keep appearing on blogs, and seeming from the same persons, then it only go to show there is harboring of deep hatreds and if built up over a period will tended to hurt the audio terrorist psychologically more than the readers of the blog who would usually enjoy a good fight if there is one, if not amusing and entertaining at times. At the most readers & writers alike will just disregard and ignore the comments of the audio terrorist, with absolutely no feeling whatsoever. Here is another disadvantage, a non benefit faced by the audio terrorist is that, even if he/she stops momentarily or absent from the blog for even a short while, and if another different audio terrorist comes into the scene and does almost similar misdeed or mischief, readers of the blog would just simply 'lump up' all the uncalled for events and placed it into the 1st terrorist 'account'..... ...and anymore audio terrorist attacks forthcoming too get dedited into that account. So the 1st terrorist will be 'surfing around' the internet with a couple of knives on his back without him even knowing about it. And if he really does appear again, some readers will just give him a piece of their mind out of disgust. So it does not pay to be a 'audio terrorist'! Do consider how much psychological damages the audio terrorist would have sustained over the period he/she terrorizes the blog! The rest of the readers, writers and blog owners included just sit back and enjoy the fiasco, especially when blog master do not intend on strict censorship.