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| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science ivan_nosnibor"Erik, I don’t think it is so much the death of science that has stopped the adoption of better measurement methods so much as it has been the rise of marketing. Not just the sheer amounts of advertising, but journalism and also the a... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science audiokinesis"If we are going to use "distortion" as a metric of merit, we should process our measurements in such a way that the result correlates well with human perception."In other words more precise and appropriate data - not less. Remember wh... | |
| What are your notes and thoughts on The Beatles White Album Giles Martin remaster? Revisited the GM remaster and within half an hour wanted to put on the 1987 version back on, or maybe even an original vinyl rip.The GM subtle changes don’t seem so subtle now and I fear his remaster will be relegated to nothing more than a curio ... | |
| Harbeth 40.2 ryder,"Natural and balanced". I understand what you mean and I feel a similar way about my Tannoys, but it is a difficult term to quantify. Some loudspeakers gave a tonal balance that is just that much easier to listen to and live with in the long... | |
| Articles You Feel Should be Shared gregm,Agreed. I bet more than a few designers have had a good look there too.I especially like the Basics Section featuring Loudspeakers and Issues in Speaker Design. Just a quick glance reveals just how closely Siegfried Linkwitz examined all the... | |
| 10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts Cable debates have been going on for decades, and it would be easy to dismiss this just as another one in a seemingly endless line. However this one is different in that this is a rare (first ever?) occurrence of a cable manufacturer pointing out ... | |
| Articles You Feel Should be Shared Markus Sauer - God is in the Nuances. Stereophile Jan 19 2000.Here’s an article, quite lengthy (if you plan to read it give yourself a good 20 -30 minutes) but symptomatic of an approach that somewhat disturbed me back in the days I sought to clim... | |
| Articles You Feel Should be Shared Here's a book review (Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home (Vincent Verdult, 2019) from the redoubtable Archimago which may be of interest.Often these types of books can seem a little too dry for general audiophile tastes - this one may no... | |
| 10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts Here's a recent discussion between two audio journalists upon the existence of snake oil in audio.My take on it was that the irritatingly impatient John Darko was continuously attempting to coerce the rather more ambivalent Jeff Dorgay (TONEAudio ... | |
| 10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts steakster,"Any business person knows that the marketplace determines the success of a product. Wikipedia: Ford EdselBelden - IconoclastFurutech Cardas Nordost Purist MIT TransparentStereovox - Black CatAcoustic Zen. . . and moreAll these cable com... | |
| Bob Dylan - "Murder Most Foul" orpheus10,"When JFK was murdered, the future of millions of people was murdered; I dare say, the future of generations of people was murdered, and the killer knew that."It's pretty well documented that the Kennedy's were aware of the various hidde... | |
| What do you use to edit music metadata info I've found nothing better than doing it manually - iTunes proved too challenging. I like to keep the genres simple, Pop, Male, Female, Rock, Rock N Roll, Jazz, Classical etc not too many sub genres.Also downloaded MP3tag ages ago but gave up on th... | |
| 10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts Good article. Perhaps you might have added a few words on capacitance, resistance and inductance and possible amplifier / loudspeaker interaction.Perhaps they don't matter much, perhaps they do. I remember NAIM used to stipulate using their own br... | |
| Rega P10 v Complete rebuild Garrard 401! bukanona,"If you look into Rega technical specification and manual you’ll find close to nothing. So how to buy turntable about which manufacturer speaks only about materials used? Of course in our century figures means nothing, marketing means eve... | |
| If you have not watched do so - great considering everything going on!!! Pretty good fun effort all-round.Should be on the United Nations playlist |