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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"Air gap flux density." It’s a real speaker measurement, although making the connection to SQ is a couple of levels above my paygrade.

 

@bigtwin 

A such, I find specs somewhat important.

+1

Where measurements have impacted a buying decision, is when sites like ASR do a review and post a bunch of measurements that appear to contradict the claims of a manufacturer.

This is where bogus begins. The websites publishing these measurements don't do it for free. The more traffic they get, the more money they make. My point is that you have to "test" yourself through auditioning. Both the manufacturers and the publishers of bogus measurements can make mistakes. 

I never really got a straight answer as to why Amir's measurements were not valid. 

He asks for money in every review. It is easy  for him to spot the reviews that generate the most money and I wouldn't put much faith in something so easily. Look at the number of reviews he publishes, it is like a drive by. If you look at his "lab" it is bare walls, bare floor, and big speakers. Not really lab or studio conditions. Many members here have much more favorable conditions to listen to gear.

Not even from Paul at PS Audio

Products are system dependent, I don't think any brand can predict how a customer will like a product under every condition.

Hope that makes my position clear