Crutchfield's Speaker Compare

luciano33,

I am curious about this feature as it defies simple logic that it should not work. They do not have my speakers, but they have another pair I am very familiar with. They definitely do not have my room in the headphones, either. Nice game, maybe it works somehow. I will try.

Maybe it is my earphones, they are not on the list, but speakers I am familiar with I could say are leaning towards what I know. However, three times more expensive speakers, or something like that, that I have heard before although not that extensively, sound about the same as the first ones. 

Fascinating, and +1 to Cfield for spending time and treasure to make the attempt to allow ’virtual comparisons’ at all. *S*

I don’t own a pair of ’phones, and haven’t for over a decade. But even listening to the ’sample’ units through my monitor Walshs’, there is subtle but noticable differences between them. luciano33 is lucky to have a pair of speakers that already exists on their list. That in itself gives him an opportunity to hear what those units sound like through their system.
It does allow to create a ’benchmark’; ’X’ sounds like "X" so one could perhaps note ’those differences’...especially if one can apply a track from ones’ computer.....

I did enjoy the ’forest’ of calibrated mics in their chamber, though. ;;)

Fascinating, I’ll have to check this out! I agree with the comments that this can be a very useful thing within the context of relative comparisons. To everyone crapping on it as useless, I think you’re completely missing the point. (This is coming from the perspective of someone who reviews gear extensively too.)

I love it when their speakers sound better than my speakers, on my speakers!