Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy

Interesting. From the SOULNOTE site, a little more on their philosophy.  Some of them apparently came from the original Marantz crew, quote -

"Soulnote believes dynamic performance keeping accuracy of the original waveform on the time axis as the most important for music playback, which is, however, still unmeasurable by any of the conventional methods. At Soulnote, only listening dominates the determination and improvement of circuit, selection of parts and mechanical construction. This approach is a kind of antithesis against the supremacy of static performance."

 

Hey guys,

I'm just happy I came across that article demonstrating the fallacy of believing static measurements is all there is to know, and needed. Kind of reminds me of when Apple came out with those "moving" still images taken on an iPhone. When you took a photo, it was actually a very short video and when viewed, gave life to that photo that it never really could capture as a still image.

All the best,
Nonoise

I'm just happy I came across that article demonstrating the fallacy of believing static measurements is all there is to know, and needed. 

Three things:

1. The stimulus is not static. A sine wave is time varying.  A multitone is time varying and complex.  Jitter signal (J-test) is also complex and time varying.  Only DC signals are static which we don't use for audio testing.

2. For the most part, audio gear is state and memory less. The system performance doesn't change or rely on what came 1 second before current time.  In that regard, "static" testing of this sort is quite appropriate.

When testing systems that do have memory such as lossy audio compression (e.g. MP3), we cannot use this type of testing because they do have memory and adapt to signal to being encoded.  There, we rely on controlled/blind listening tests.

3. I also using music files for such things as null tests of power cables and such.  This is more done to do away with objections like yours more than being a need.

@fleschler

Have any of audiogon (or any other reasonable audio forum site) posters encountered this horrible group of miscreants?  

 

No, I just got here.  😁

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