Please take your deflated balls and go home.
Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why?
After my Audio Science Review review forum, it became apparent that nearly the only way one can determine the measurements of an audio product is wait for a review on line or in a publication. Most equipment is never reviewed or is given a subjective analysis rather than a measurement oriented review. One would think that manufacturers used tests and measurements to design and construct their products.
Manufacturers routinely give the performance characteristics of their products as Specifications. Those are not test measurements.
I searched the Revel speaker site for measurements of any of their speakers and could not find any. Revels are universally lauded for their exceptional reviewed measurements. Lack of published manufacturer measurements is true for nearly every speaker manufacturer I've searched for on line, perhaps several hundred. Same is true for amps, pre-amps, DACs, transports, turntables, well you get the picture. Do they have something to hide? I doubt the good quality products have anything to hide but poor quality products do.
ASR prides itself in providing "true" measurements that will aid in purchase decisions. Why don't the manufacturers provide these measurements so that reviewers can test if they are truthful or not?
Then there are the cables and tweaks for which I suspect that there are inadequate tests available to measure sonically perceived differences but which objectivists believe don't exist or are "snake oil."
Well, please chime in if you have some illuminating thoughts on the subject.
I would have loved to see manufacturers measurements on my equipment and especially those that I rejected.
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@amir_asr , the title of this thread is not cables anything. The title is about manufacturers and measurements right? I posted the specs of the cables I list in my virtual system because it got right to the point of the OP, that’s it. You shared how to do a blind test, I shared that I did one as you mentioned. It was a response to your suggestion about switching cables as a friend helps, that’s it. Now, if you go back you stated I made a mistake (in bold, like you were shouting) That is where this went off the rails, you never heard my system, never tried these cables, etc. Now, as this thread IS about measurements after all, let’s go there OK? I am willing to give you a rematch, NP. So far you have failed to answer the bell and posted nothing about your own system. I offered to help, encouraged you to start a thread if your aren’t happy with something. As for @mikelavigne he was nice enough to contribute to a thread I started about end game systems. That thread wasn’t about measurements OK? So, your hot air is still blowing, get on with it already, post something about your system. Audiogon Forum 1- ASR 0 If you want a rematch in a new thread start it, NP. This is the thread I started I met @mikelavigne in, feel free to join the party:
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This is the title of the thread:
Before I showed up on page one, you all started to talk about cables. Hence my questions to you. You have not posted anything about the cables you say you fell in love with. Nothing in the thread title is about in-room measurements of people. Nor are the members here showing any interest in such measurements. As I said, create a new thread and see if there is interest in it. If there is, and you have something worthwhile to say that is not just noise like these posts, then I will engage. Until then, we are discussing manufacturers and why they don't post measurements.
You post it here in the context of measurements. And your demands that I show in-room measurements of mine. You showed no interest in his room measurements so clearly letting your eyes judge his system. As such, you are a prime target for marketing department of audio companies. They love non-critical people who go by looks than objective performance or controlled subjective listening.
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I’ll admit I like #3, and I like low distortion drivers (#5). We may have a problem with the wrong measurements, or with maybe the frequency not extending as low as we would like… but IMO it is more of a problem that most speakers have no measurements. And also all the boutique power cords, IC, and speaker cables have no measurements or specs. The ones that do have measurements are generally pretty well liked stuff, Mogami, Cardis and other bales and ICs. And Genelec, Dutch-n-Dutch, Bouchard, etc. However; this thread either started off as an attack on specs, measurements, ASR, or you… it could have been some spreadsheet of what have measurements, and how well the gear is liked to see if there are any correlations… But alas, it is not that. well… you and I are sticking to the “manufacturers and why they don’t post measurements”.
^Agree^, I just did not want it perceived as being a shill.
That is true for R&D maybe. But they might need some chamber or way to maintain QA.
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I imagine canine Majidimehr is a more capable student than human Majidimehr. And better at dog pose. But I notice you practice the twist poses frequently. Which is your favourite?
Don’t you mean "you people"?
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