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Speaker Pricing and Reviews

Hi Everyone,

I just posted two entries to my blog that I think you'll find interesting and hopefully informative. I've been doing a lot of analysis and trying to compare my personal hearing experiences with reviews, especially at Stereophile which has caused me to post a couple of pieces online.  Please let me know what you think. One of the common replies is that there is more than frequency response to speakers, which is true, but then why do so many of the over-hyped speakers Stereophile reviews share a common frequency  response (FR) curve?

The more I go back in time looking at Stereophile FR charts, the more apparent the Stereophile curve becomes.

Please let me know what you think.

Best,


Erik
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rocray
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Neither link seems to work for me.
erik_squires OP
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Doh!
Sorry, too many "http" strings.

http://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/stereophile-reviews-data-doesnt-lie.html

http://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-cynical-introduction-to-speaker.html
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rocray
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On one hand,can you blame a speaker mfg.for making something that will sound good to the end user?? 
On the other hand,should they charge $100k for those speakers??
  It appears that some speaker mfg's have hired audiologists instead of engineers. 
erik_squires OP
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No, not at all, but it's a lot cheaper to buy a nanoDIGI to alter the FR for $170to match your hearing loss than to buy a speaker for tens of thousands of dollars. :)

It's also not nearly neutral, so don't sell it to me as such.

Best,

Erik
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gdhal
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Hi Erik. Frankly I do not believe those articles, especially the hearing aid BS. Besides, this is the reason the stereophile review is simply one of many other professional and non-professional reviews. Are hearing aids involved in every case? 
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