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..
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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I already explained what i did... And this youtube video present only One kind of Helmholtz resonators... Then in your mind because you ignored the physical principle all resonators must be done in the same material and in the same way... Buy an acoustic books to understand why there is many other way to design one... Helmholtz originally use bottle with a thin aperture tuned ... I also used 50 bottles of different size but prefered to use also tubes of various volumes of some lenght with a neck of various lenght because it was more easy to modify in the tuning process ... None of mine were designed with wood... I used tubes...
When you work with ONE Helmhotz resonators as in this video it is because you want to modify some very specific thin range of frequencies... I uses a distributed large set of resonators specifically located in the room and in relation to the speakers and listening position because i wanted to act on a larger set of frequencies and using location in the room as a tool to modify the room itself not just some specific frequency range...... Some resonators were next my speakers drivers, some behind me etc... is it difficult to understand ? if so buy a book of acoustics...
What is a speakers with a vent hole ? A Helmholtz resonator... with only one hole... I modified my small speakers on the same principle guiding way... I designed 100 not as a task... I begun with one... I observed the result... Then i designed few others... I discovered that location matter not just size... Because a room is itself a resonator... etc
Read book instead of trying to mock me as you did few months ago and right now in your preceding post... my patience is thin with sarcasms...
Are you so surprized when a dude tune a piano by ear? It is the same thing to tune a room... Or are you surprized if someone do calculus in his head instead of using a computer? My goal by the way was not "perfection" but results satisfying me and at the same time learning acoustics... You buy gear upgrade, i learn acoustics... Is it so shocking ? I used my ears , you do not and do not understand how , is it shocking ?
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I am very conscious that most people are not in retirement as i am, most people dont have the luxury of time to study and experiment, most people either dont have the luxury to have a dedicated room. In some case they have money then they purchase gear pieces... Then my claim that acoustics concepts concrete understanding matter more cannot be popular not a very welcome claim... But truth matter... I hope people begin to understand also that by acoustics i do not speak about room acoustic solved with few panels and devices but more importantly about a change in our own perception and understanding of sound.. Hearing is innate, listening must be learned and our mind must tame our brain as well as our room... When our mind begin to tame our brain, i means that our biases change not only with parameters change but by our conceptual change... Buying gear is secondary... And not interesting as such compared to the improvement you are able to create by yourself in the room and in your mind...... |
