Audibility gaps in loudspeakers stem from inadequate measurements, not limitations of measurement itself.

Evidence

When expectations from published specifications differ significantly from audible reality, it is easy to understand how the old expression “we can’t measure what we can hear” came to be. The problem is inadequate measurements, not the supremacy of the human hearing system. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 245

Categorization

• DEFINE: Inverts the common audiophile axiom ‘we can’t measure what we can hear’ — the failure is the measurement suite, not the perceiver.
• DEEPTHINKING: A terse, paradigm-flipping statement that reframes the entire debate about measurement versus listening as an instrumentation failure rather than an epistemological limit — worth sitting with.