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.

kota1

Showing 2 responses by carlsbad

Measurements by ASR is (I think) the topic of this thread.  I find them very useful.

 

Generally if you do the opposite of what ASR recommends you'll be right on.

 

Jerry

Vendors can’t publish their numbers very well unless there is a standard measurement technique and then people need to know what to do with it. In the 70s and 80s, every amp had to be <.25% THD or nobody would buy it. But there was a lot of lying.

Most people posting here have never worked in a lab. But I’ll tell you it is much less expensive to find a way to improve your measurements than to improve your product.

Publishing a bunch of numbers that the reader doesn’t understand and that don’t really tell you how a component sounds is perfect for the internet age where everyone thinks they can be an expert on everything by reading google.

Jerry