Hilde45 +1 😊
10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world.
10 Problems with the audiophile world.
#1 Speakers and amps need to be made synergistically.
#2 Room acoustics are so much more important than they realize.
#3. High End audio companies rarely show scientific measurements. Why not?
#4 Audiophiles have very little knowledge of music production.
#5 The dealer system in high end audio is not working.
#6 Snake oil is not loathed but treated as an amusing possibility for better sound.
#7 Expensive equipment, confirmation bias, ego, no standards, will eat people who don’t like expensive cables.
#8 Very little blind listening tests.
#9 No use of audio files showing differences in components, before and after.
#10 Audiophiles make subjective decisions claiming to be scientifically objective.
10 Wonderful things about the audiophile world.
#1 People who love music.
#2 Smart people who are passionate about the latest technology.
#3 Audiophiles rarely eat people for not liking their new expensive cables.
#4 Being an audiophile is a great hobby.
#5 Being an audiophile is mentally healing.
#6 Audiophiles are trying to make fidelity and quality paramount unlike other industries.
#7 Audiophiles are a strong community.
#8 Samsung / Harden is making lots of money.
#9 Audiophiles are always moving toward a goal.
#10 Audiophiles appreciate beauty.
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I made many simple blind tests in my few years of mechanical, electrical and acoustical incremental process of optimization for my system ... Then you means by blind test : double blind test protocol ... guess why it is generally useless for me and any other audiophile optimizing his system ?😁 Only objectivist fanatic promote double blind test as the only "proof" of a small change ... For small change i dont need public validated proof because all ears, all designs and all gear pieces and all acoustic rooms or all headphones etc are not equals ... For big change i dont need double blind test public validated proof either ... A company may need it to sell it , not me designing my own system with gear pieces i use my ears.. ... |
You means here without doubt without saying it explicitly : subjectivist audiophiles ... But the reverse is true for objectivist audiophiles ...Then i will add this to your tenth point : They appeal to an objective limited set of electrical measurement called specs as the only ground for ANY subjective perception ... Psycho-acoustics research rules audio, not mere electrical specs, well measured or not ...
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This is true subjectivist audiophiles underestimated the impact of room acoustic on their beautiful loved gear pieces ...😊
But objectivists audiophiles, enamoured by electrical measurements tools and double blind test, ignore also that electrical specs of the gear matter way less than the room/speakers/ears settings and psycho-acoustics principles ...
Here you means deluded consumers obsessed by upgrades collection or you means objectivist fanatic in a crusade to debunk audiophiles no ?😁 As a non-subjectivist and a non-objectivist audiophile myself , my goal is never moving when i walk because my goal is inside me : learning acoustics and loving music ...
« A single set of measures cannot say all the story to tell , because all possible measures, known and unknown, are not equals » -- Anonymus acoustician «Do we need a new theory as much, if not much more than a new fact ? »-- Anonymus hearing aids designer |
I think you meant Harmon @donavabdear, and I disagree with most of the rest of what you said. |
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