@audio2design,
'It will of course be noted that "Audio Reviewers" did poorly. Retail audio sales, better, but not great. Selected and trained did by far the best. Selected mainly by good hearing (which I suspect many here no longer have), and trained to listen for specific defects for loudspeakers.'
This could be a major problem with all of our opinions, learned and experienced as they might be. Just how good is our hearing? Can you imagine how skewed our impressions might be if we were to have one or two dips at various frequencies?
Perhaps it's high time someone put out a comprehensive online listening test measuring both our ability to hear not only comparitive loudness but different frequencies.
I mean where would it leave the opinions of someone whose hearing becomes irregular above 8kHz? You'd think it would be mandatory for reviewers (and anyone working in pro audio) to have thorough hearing tests, but apparently it is not.
Floyd Toole's work might not get us all to the audio promised land, but nevertheless it remains a valuable map for anyone attempting to navigate their way to sonic excellence.
It's not really too surprising that in addition to the importance of a flat on-axis performance and smooth off axis performance, listeners also gave bass a 30% weighting when assessing overall performance, is it?
'It will of course be noted that "Audio Reviewers" did poorly. Retail audio sales, better, but not great. Selected and trained did by far the best. Selected mainly by good hearing (which I suspect many here no longer have), and trained to listen for specific defects for loudspeakers.'
This could be a major problem with all of our opinions, learned and experienced as they might be. Just how good is our hearing? Can you imagine how skewed our impressions might be if we were to have one or two dips at various frequencies?
Perhaps it's high time someone put out a comprehensive online listening test measuring both our ability to hear not only comparitive loudness but different frequencies.
I mean where would it leave the opinions of someone whose hearing becomes irregular above 8kHz? You'd think it would be mandatory for reviewers (and anyone working in pro audio) to have thorough hearing tests, but apparently it is not.
Floyd Toole's work might not get us all to the audio promised land, but nevertheless it remains a valuable map for anyone attempting to navigate their way to sonic excellence.
It's not really too surprising that in addition to the importance of a flat on-axis performance and smooth off axis performance, listeners also gave bass a 30% weighting when assessing overall performance, is it?
