deludedaudiophile, you seem very defensive about this topic. I get the impression that you manufacture a product and are trying to rationalize not using certified or calibrated test equipment. That would be sloppy work indeed. Any manufacturer publishing specifications for their product should be backing up those specs with data from certified, calibrated instrumentation. If not, they could find themselves in hot water I would think if not able to defend their published claims.
Amir and Blind Testing
Let me start by saying I like watching Amir from ASR, so please let’s not get harsh or the thread will be deleted. Many times, Amir has noted that when we’re inserting a new component in our system, our brains go into (to paraphrase) “analytical mode” and we start hearing imaginary improvements. He has reiterated this many times, saying that when he switched to an expensive cable he heard improvements, but when he switched back to the cheap one, he also heard improvements because the brain switches from “music enjoyment mode” to “analytical mode.” Following this logic, which I agree with, wouldn’t blind testing, or any A/B testing be compromised because our brains are always in analytical mode and therefore feeding us inaccurate data? Seems to me you need to relax for a few hours at least and listen to a variety of music before your brain can accurately assess whether something is an actual improvement. Perhaps A/B testing is a strawman argument, because the human brain is not a spectrum analyzer. We are too affected by our biases to come up with any valid data. Maybe.
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Sorry but the way a piece of gear could be evaluated is in a specific ROOM ONLY ... Not by an electrical partial chosen set of measures ONLY ...CORRELATION BETWEEN MEASURES AND ROOM is NECESSARY ... That was my point... I know perfectly well that there is all kind of people in this site, even acousticians... But claiming that a piece of gear is "bad" without listening it in a controlled acoustic is BULLSHIT...And this is what Amir does often and his disciples who attack "deluded audiophile" if you know what i means... And it is perfectly possible to tune a room by ears, i have done it to my satisfaction AT NO COST...It is not perfect but it works...Helmholtz did it before me and the Egyptian... I dont need any headphones now nor any upgrade nor any advice by fools who think measuring some aspects of a dac without listening to it is the way to chose one... Then read me right... Iam not a deluded audiophile nor a deluded measuring fool... If there exist only 2 cases in your audio brain; deluded audiophile and measuring fool, add a third one for me...call it CORRELATING EARS AND MEASURES guy... 😁😊
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By the way i dont pretend to teach their job to acoustician... I pretend to have been able to tune my room.. Then dont put in my mouth what serve your goal... And in case you dont know it, SMALL ROOM acoustic is a recent field in acoustic science investigations ... The market for small room acoustic is few decades old...Amphitheater exist for millenia... i dont pretend to know anything, i only experimented 2 years non stop in my room... And my room beat my 8 headphones... it is not perfect but it is enough for me.. And by the way the best acoustician in the world are on the net with their articles and books... They are not in the ASR site...And if they are there. did they contradict the idiotic way to judge a piece of gear by numbers alone ? Inform me about that i dont know... 😊 How do you think i learn to tune my room? By consulting acoustician articles on the internet...And creating my own experiments... Serious Acousticians are not dwelling in audiophile forum for sure and not in your ASR site either , they WORK ... Read my post right please before categorizing me in the "deluded audiophile "box your avatar name suggest....
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I manufacture batteries @tonywinga , or more specifically I develop the technology for the batteries that are manufactured. The only thing I am defending is common sense and against those that try to look like they know what they are talking about when they really don't. This place is great for music suggestion, good for speakers, and I like looking at rooms for design ideas which is why I have read it over the years. Some of the best music suggestions you will find. Otherwise, too many people who are convinced of their expertise in all things audio though they have likely not seen a physics class since high school. They are easy to tell, they throw around terms like Bureau of Standards in 2022, even thought it was eliminated in the 1980's. At that point it becomes obvious they picked up a term from someone else who also did not know what they are talking about either. It's tedious, and it is disrespectful to spread false information under the guise of fake expertise to a community that supposedly you respect. |
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