I really like the illusion tests. Had to bookmark that to many links off of it, keep me busy for awhile.
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I’ll kick off with a recent posting by the remarkably clear-sighted and even handed Archimago.
Once again cutting through layers of mostly deliberate confusion, obfuscation and denial.
Production, Reproduction and Perception - the 3 pillars upon which everything in our audiophile world stands, is my new mantra.
So simple it’s surprising that no one else pointed it out earlier.
Be sure to also check out his follow up blog from Wednesday, 11 March 2020.
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/03/musings-audio-music-audiophile-big.html?m=1
Once again cutting through layers of mostly deliberate confusion, obfuscation and denial.
Production, Reproduction and Perception - the 3 pillars upon which everything in our audiophile world stands, is my new mantra.
So simple it’s surprising that no one else pointed it out earlier.
Be sure to also check out his follow up blog from Wednesday, 11 March 2020.
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/03/musings-audio-music-audiophile-big.html?m=1
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Any thread that triggers Mr. Pebbles to respond in <11 minutes without even following the link (or he would know it was just a forum thread, not an article), must be a good thread. I have nothing to add yet, I just don't know how to follow a thread without posting in it ... yet :-) djones512,416 posts07-05-2020 9:54amYes, I've seen some of those as well. Here's a thread from that hated sight ASR on fuses affecting sound. It's not a blind test. geoffkait23,245 posts07-05-2020 9:58amI wouldn’t use the word bogus... |
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Whatever happened to the quality of reproduced sound in the home? Siegfried Linkwitz ALMA Int 2014 Here’s a fascinating 50 year recap by the great man. It’s always interesting to read his views but some of the following have stuck in the memory. For example, without giving too much away, it’s fair to say he didn’t like passive crossovers or ports, and seemed to be quite fond of Magneplanars: "The typical loudspeaker comes with fundamental flaws, which critical listeners try to correct by room treatment. The solution would be a loudspeaker with spectrally neutral radiation in all directions. Such loudspeakers are extremely rare. In general, the quality of reproduced sound in the home has reached a plateau that is uninspiring to the Apple and Google generation. ---- But 3 areas of loudspeaker design remain as hurdles to obtaining the highest quality in sound reproduction: 1 - Vented boxes. They introduce group delay distortion and color the bass. 2 – Passive crossover-equalizers. They decouple the power amplifier from the transducer and give up motion control. They interact with the transducer. 3 – Frequency dependent directivity. Box loudspeakers radiate omnidirectional at low frequencies and beam at high frequencies. They feed more energy at low frequencies into the room’s reverberant field than at high frequencies. (Why should the off-axis response of the loudspeaker matter? It determines how the room becomes engaged with how the room becomes engaged with the stereo illusion). ---- Fundamental Questions: 1 - Can loudspeakers and listening room disappear from auditory perception? My answer to all 3 questions is YES! * Radiation pattern ’The Magneplanar uses large radiating panels and a long high frequency ribbon is not an acoustically small radiator and therefore has radiation lobes. It makes its interaction with the room difficult to predict. It also suffers in bass volume capability. Never-the-less it comes close to my ideal loudspeaker concept." ----- The article won’t be everyone’s cup of tea as SL didn’t pull his punches, but I think it’s well worth 10 or 15 minutes reading time. http://www.linkwitzlab.com/ALMA%2714/Sound_quality.htm |
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