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A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers??

I'm not saying that this is going to save high end...or that this is the way that most of us will buy loudspeakers going forward...but you've got to give these guys credit for coming up with a new idea that might just pull a few more people into the "hobby" by lessening some of the risk, cost and hassle.

Check this out....and just give it a try for yourself with a decent set of headphones...

https://www.crutchfield.com/speakercompare/

just pick some speakers and hit the compare button...then scroll to the bottom and hit the "compare these products" button
on the right....then follow the directions.

What do you think?
snapsc
snapsc OP
674 posts
 
Since they just rolled this out a week or two ago, I suspect that there will be some tweaks in the months to come.  Its pretty interesting that they hired two phd engineers to develop this program...and I'm sure a bunch more to program it into their system and then test it and roll it out.

It may not help them with customers as much as they hope for initially...but it may send a strong message to suppliers that they should be distributing their products through Crutchfield and that in itself is pretty valuable.


crazyeddy's avatar
crazyeddy
381 posts
 
Oh, come on .... this is  just too silly !!
smerdyakov
5 posts
 
Given the importance of placing and room characteristics to speaker performance, this makes no sense at all. Fun to play with perhaps, but meaningless.
royj's avatar
royj
151 posts
 
Reading between their lines, the comparison is performed inside a computer of how each speaker is supposed to sound based upon their measurements. This means you are never hearing a recording of a real speaker. In studios, software can simulate different guitar amps, through which to playback your 'raw' guitar until you hear what you want. Same for simulating different reverb chambers, microphone preamps, various equalizers and compressors. Those processes work rather well but speakers? All the variables mentioned above are not addressed nor can ever be. Bogus.
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mapman
22,198 posts
 
Very cool if it can actually convey the tonality and dynamics of speakers alone through headphones.  Will give it a try with my phones and some speakers I know and see what I hear.
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