Snake oil exists everywhere - in audiophile and in measurements.
I Am Tired of Bogus Measurements
My expensive shoes have measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will they fit. My expensive new suit has measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will my expensive new shoes match.
The people being misled by measruements aren’t being led my manufacturers, they are being misled by reviewers. Idiotic rankings of digital gear based on measurements outside the range of human hearing. Cancelling entire brands who put out features customers actually want as they sell to humans, not bats. The worst of these websites will rant about their own superior $$$ equipment but mot even one person will ever use speakers in a klippel matchine, they actually put them in a room! The horror. The cancelling of brands, the talking down to the customers, is bogus.
You need to measure what matters! Are the customers actually happy? Is the warranty honored? Most importantly is their an in home audition period?
I don’t need someone to tell me if I could or should like a product. My room is not a test bench, or a klippel machine. Who cares what the component measures by itself because unless its a clock radio I’ll never use it by itself, I have to interconnect it in a "system" with "high quality" cables, (as in all cables are not the same).
If you want to measure something measure how your personal system of curated components interact with your room. That’s it. The rest of the stuff you could forget because these days if a brand overpromises and under delivers they will be following a formula for losing money, an no company likes that.
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I disagree. In the vast majority of cases, the less information the better. More information leads to paralysis by analysis and the customer freezing. Keep it simple: A point system of measurements and price. That’s all it takes to sell. And the master Amir knows that. He has figured it out.
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I am sick of measurements that tell me nothing about how a component will sound in my CHAIN of components, I think the measurement thing is bogus because it is supposed to predict how it will sound in my system. No one can predict that because every room sound will impact performance. I think an in room FR meassurement has some predictive value. EQ is like spitting on a fire, it can only do so much. |
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