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| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? Driving skills are easily assessed with measurable tests. Listening skills can also be tested. If someone claims to have perfect pitch, we can test that. If they claim they can identify extremely low levels of distortion, we can test that. If they... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? I love a good audio placebo effect - especially if it's cheap. I know I'm susceptible to my audio perception being amazingly transformed simply by being told something about the sound source or given a suggestion of what I should be hearing. Ever ... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? From what I've heard about pain killing placebos is that they don't actually work when measuring pain objectively - which is usually done with a range of motion test. A person on a placebo will say they feel better and the pain is less bothersome,... | |
| klipshorn speakers They don't do super deep bass, but they will play very loud without effort. I added a pair of 15" direct radiator subwoofers to a pair of K-horns years ago. my die-hard horn-loaded-only friend was impressed with the extension. I think I crossed th... | |
| Need opinions on ceiling reflections That's a great looking room! I think you are probably right about that earlier ceiling bounce on the left having a noticeable effect. Fiberglass as noromance suggested is more effective. 2" thick Owens Corning 703 should be enough to test it out.... | |
| Ok, but does your audio gear have rotons (metamaterials)? Very interesting. I'd never heard of a roton. It'll be interesting to see what can be done with these through engineering. When I was in high school the hope was for room temperature superconductors to change everything. Didn't happen but superco... | |
| Why don't more recordings have soundstage outside of speakers Lately I feel my system is dialed in better than ever and is sounding very good on a wide variety of music. This has come at the expense of some "special effects." I put that in quotes because, as was mentioned earlier, playing with tonal respons... | |
| At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home? Well said millercarbon. I also agree with miijostyn- you can get a pretty convincing portrayal of a drum kit at a distance but I too have heard a real drum kit in my room along with my speakers and there's just no comparison, even when it's played... | |
| True or False? Good listening skills for musical playback enjoyment include the ability to mask out unwanted sounds and anomalies and reconstruct in our heads things that aren't really heard. Bad listening skills would be to be able to hear things as they really... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? Blind testing is quite useful for determining if something is plainly audible to most people. It can also be used to determine if some difference that’s been shown to be audible is preferable or not to most people. Proving that something is inaudi... | |
| My conclusion: mid level $$ analog vs digital When I used to have a vinyl setup I would occasionally compare the same album on vinyl with CD. Some of them sounded nearly identical with a moderate grade cartridge and phono stage. Some sounded very different. I think the mastering is a big deal... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! The less measurable the effects are, the more audible they become. Or am I wrong here? Anybody got some measurements on these power cords? | |
| Compression Titanium Worlds finest tweet ever engineered I refute it. Compression drivers and their associated horns are too big. | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” I think we need a technical description of "shouty." A lot of sounds in nature could be described as shouty and a lot of speakers can't produce them with the lifelike intensity that a horn speaker can. Maybe it's the inability to shout regardless ... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? It's definitely been one of my objectives to have a system that sounds good all around the room, even though it's still best when directly between the speakers. Speakers with smooth off axis performance and some degree of directionality in the tre... |