If You And I Disagree About Audio, Who's Right? Roger Skoff tells you who to believe.

Your wife .

There is the gear choices, then the embeddings working controls of the electrical and mechanical and acoustical factors...

Acoustic is the key factor...

Thats all i learned in the last years of my listening experiments...

I am not right or wrong.... It is not even debatable...

Acoustic is key and it is a simple MISUNDERSTOOD fact by most because acoustic is more complex than buying and plugging...

Then i dont debate simple fact....

I am not right or wrong.... It is a simple fact : what we hear is more related to acoustic science than to some brand name company...

But people with a lot of money, not studying or experimenting with acoustic, DEBATED about "tweaks" for or against one, and vouch for brand name gear , especially costly one and they called this ignorance of acoustic their " taste"...

They completely underestimated the power of acoustic treatment and control and promote their "taste" in gear....If this is audio debate i am out of it....

Am i right or am i wrong? Nor right nor wrong...ON TARGET....It is not a debate it is knowledge...

It is a common place fact.... Like the genesis of rainbow after the rain....

Who will debate about rainbow existence?

 

«Rainbow exist only in my head perhaps but my head encompass the universe» -Groucho Marx physicist 

As the article states, if it sounds good to you then it’s good. Nothing else matters. 

Acoustic matter....

And our own discriminative perceptive power must be EDUCATED by acoustic...Our listening "taste"or experiences are the result of a personal specific history.... Not like crocodiles an INNATE taste.....

If our alleged "taste" are not educated by our own experiments we are only mere conditioned PASSIVE customers ... I am not one...

"as the article states" deceptively alluding to the consumerism mantra and alleged "taste" :

 

The important words here is : "IF YOU ARE SHOPPING"...

I dont shop i have made listenings experiments in the three working dimensions of audio...Especially acoustic....

I dont need to shop and upgrade chasing my tail.... Music is also sound but sound is not music....

 

This article is simplistic...He speak about gear not about acoustic embeddings for ANY gear ... and directed toward consumerism not knowledge and experiments and experience in embeddings controls...WITH A COMPLETE UNDERESTIMATION of acoustic for the benefit of consumerism...

The author even spoke of the way electricity travel in cables...Ridiculous because the effect of different cables choice on sound experience dont measure up to acoustic tremendous impact... This author is not even wrong...Like String theorists...

That says all....

The only important words here is : "if you are shopping"....

What about how to embed properly the gear we already own ?

How to listen to the gear we already own in an untreated and uncontrolled room?

NOT A WORD about that...

Debates in audio reflect most of the times ignorance...Especially of acoustic impact...

I apologize for my rant but anyway it seems i am one of the very few here who know that....am i nut? i listen to my 500 bucks system amazed by general ignorance and price tag conditioning...

I never read audio articles anymore guess why?

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If you’re shopping, do read the reviews, but do, also, understand that the reviewer is listening on his system, in his room, with his own set of concerns and listening biases, and use him to rules thing OUT of consideration, but never finally in.

In the end, you are the only person whose opinion matters.

Now, go to your listening room, turn on your system, sit down in your favorite spot, close your eyes and...

 

 

nobody's right and nobody's wrong remember everybody's ears are different so what can be great for someone maybe terrible for others.