The Insane World of High End Audio! Is it All a Scam?
This 15 minutes of youtube video by "cheapaudioman" say a lot and hide a lot...
He review low cost products ...
His analysis of audiophiles world here seems fair to me...
But nowhere in all his videos and in this one he mention "acoustics" as the basis of audio hobby, the anker of any system and gear piece evaluation and satisfaction...
He always talk about the gear... Probably acoustics for him as for most is only acoustics panels purchase...
My point is not that the audio world of audiophile is a scam with scammers...
Not at all.
It is ignorance of what is acoustics basics that makes people victim of their own decisions and a potential prey for honest or dishonest sellers..
Agreed, and the honest makers of good gear will say this. Interesting discussion here with a leader at Benchmark regarding what makes the biggest difference. Answer: the room.
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A consequence of this acoustics perspective and necessary training, is that all reviews are heavily conditioned by the acoustics conditions of the listening system/listener/room, then reviews are not an information which can indicate way more than personal taste. Real synergy must be tested with many pieces of gear and measured techs. For music recent scientific article demonstrated that we perceived "timbre" the same way among all cultures, and "timbre" is the root of musical various musical scales in use all around the world.. The consequences for audio are evident : the perception of timbre is one of the main aspect for music and cannot be measured by few techs numbers but must be listened to by ears/brain. ( one of the reason is in psycho-acoustics linked to the way the ears lives and brain create sound perception in his own non linear time domain).
If all reviews are subjectivist taste, and if all technical gear measures are objectivist limiting insufficient few numbers; the only way to assign a meaningful value to a system/room is to study the acoustics basics and the varying acoustics parameters to makes each one of us in control of our own experience. Then free from our ignorance and easy prey for maketing.
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Thanks for the video.
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You tuned a 100 resonators by ear?? Tubes... straws..all acting in unison??? serving as a mechanical room equalizer all tuned by ear????? Holmes, let us grab a hold of reality together for a minute...and you go ahead, follow some of this diy video on how to build a helmholtz resonator. Start cutting some wood, start with 1 Take some measurements and figure out what ’equalizing’ you may even need, to begin with... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUsyeBkNVEI
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