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Responses from erik_squires
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science In summary, again: "Don’t call buying audio equipment scientific just because you hooked it up to a scope. It isn’t scientific at all, it’s just your personal, and very emotional, buying choices." In fact, buying from a scope's output is irrationa... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science Toole advocates ...@austinstereo I really don’t mean to turn this into a pro/con for each person/brand, or hero worship of anyone I mentioned. I don’t agree with everything anyone says. What I wanted to say was that science is more than a number ... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science Look, I have never bought Bose, but NO ONE spends more money on R&D, including measurements and consumer preference than Bose, which they pursue in a very organized and scientific fashion. I think what many are missing can be summarized: Scien... | |
| Trying to wrap my head around ripping CDs and any loss of data that occurs... Depends on the format you used. WAV, FLAC and ALAC are lossless. There are rippers that try to quadruple check that the recording was accurate, but generally it's' a lot of extra time. :) If you ripped to MP3, then re-do it using one of the sugge... | |
| Build or buy, speaker options . Georgehifi posited that it could be iron core inductors in the crossovers getting saturated, Iron core get saturated very quickly, like, immediately, and the measurements I've seen show the distortion is relatively low when it happens. What ... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science Hey d2girls always a pleasure. I am active on ASR but I am trying to be less active. It’s hard because it’s one of the nicer communities that exist in this hobby Seems like that to me!! I disagree with you about their measurements and claim... | |
| How the H E double hockey sticks do I stream music?! Why don't you stick with the Sonos ecosystem if you are happy with it? The Sonos Connect ~ $250, will feed your DAC. https://amzn.to/2MdcwL7 | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science My impression of Toole is he’s basically your garden variety old school gum flapper. Toole is a giant and our ability to buy and enjoy the best in audio reproduction rests on the shoulders of men like him. I don't agree with everything he says... | |
| Your One Bullet Point Solution; Electrical Upgrade I will have exterior whole house surge protector put on by elec. co., which is a bargain to help protect nice gear, and may put an additional one inside on panel, The thing to keep in mind about the whole house protectors, which are important, is... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science There was a post at the bottom of one of the reviews: listening impressions? Which, IMHO they are doing wrong and with bias. You should listen before measurement, or in the absence of knowing what those measurements are. If you measure, analyze ... | |
| Full Range speakers for a living space Please read my posting here:https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-snr-1-room-response-and-roon.htmlGiven your tastes, I'd suggest the JBL L100 with some sort of EQ, you'll probably need it. Best,E | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science @mikelavigneI generally agree with you, but as I've been looking into driver measurements I think there's a big divide between what the top level scientists and engineers use for speakers vs. what's available for the general press. In particular, ... | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science how your average Bose product would measure, but you don’t get to these numbers without science. Assuming they measure poorly, doesn’t that mean measurements are all wrong? To clarify, I meant that I don't know how Bose products would measure... | |
| Sound, neutrality and the pursuit of everything I'm after the most transparency I can have in an apartment. It has to sound good at moderate listening levels and be so clear and lack distortion that I feel like you do when you are at the top of a mountain range, like you can see for miles, only... | |
| Best DAC for around $2,500 or less I have a Topping DX3, the Mytek Brooklyn is far better sounding to my ears. Both measure exceptionally well. Oscilloscopes don’t enjoy music, so I don’t go exclusively by measurements unless those measurements have been proven to agree with my enj... |