Consumer tone control use disrupts program translation across systems.

Evidence

Clearly, customers will use tone controls if they are available and some of their choices can seriously disrupt the circle of confusion and any attempts at program “translation”. Many more listeners would need to be tested in order to draw substantive conclusions about specific preference curves, but these data are indicators. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1357

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘circle of confusion’ concept central to this book and to Toole’s broader argument that flat direct sound is the reference standard.