Clarify this for me, please

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HAH, couldn't come up with your own example? :p

To be fair, I did mention expensive speaker cables first.

In any case, this is different from those audiophile nuts. Computer experience is all about quantity (of time), not quality like audio. Quantity is measured far easier than quality. Therefore this so called fluency that has been used as a argument pro AMD actually can be measured, although indeed in not as simple ways we typically benchmark computers/processors. That makes your analogy erroneous.

On the other hand, both rely on human perception. The typical human ear is usually not able to determine the difference between pretty good hardware and highend hardware. Similar to the old adage of how a new system has to be 50% faster than the old one before a person can perceive it to be faster. If a Phenom is better that it is noticeable by a person, then it should be measurable.