jssmith
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| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @perkri: I've read Harman uses both trained employees and trained and untrained civilians. I remember reading that they also did sighted and blind tests with their own engineers and, as expected, the sighted tests had completely different results.... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @mahgister: Room/gear/ears synergy is another factors... This is the reason why we choose gear by listening it for practical reason But you can't listen to everything. Heck, there's very little you can listen to in a comparative environment n... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @perkri : These measurements are specifications that tell you how well the components will get along, but very little about how good something will sound. That can not be measured. Period. A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR CHOOSING LOUDSPEAKERS AND HEAD... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @ speedbump6 : Part of what you describe is one of humans' most powerful instincts, the pursuit of status. And when your livelihood or acceptance into a desired group is dependent on a belief, it's apt to be even more deeply rooted and challenges... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @djones"Why do so many people reject/fear science?"There's a whole area of study to this called psychological rigidity, but in simplest terms it boils down to some people's problem of equating being wrong with feeling stupid. So they never consi... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? Seems to me the goal of a DAC should be accuracy. It seems like a crapshoot to try to color the sound with tube distortion at the DAC level, especially when you're already coloring it at the preamp level. Who knows what combination of distortion y... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @john1 There are verifiable statistics to guide us. In Jan. 2021 vinyl album sales were 27% of all record sales. It's only gone up since. That study also says that vinyl accounts for only 3.6% of music consumption.Which reflects the problem with... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @dletch2 in poor acoustic environments (most audiophiles rooms) If they're spending $100K on a system I'd hope they'd have the common sense to spend $3K of that on room treatments. But judging from some of the pictures I see of high-dollar sys... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @mglik " To me, it seems strange when auditioning “$100Kish gear, that vinyl doesn’t enter the picture or conversation."Because, from a capability standpoint, vinyl is technologically inferior to digital. Additionally,Vinyl has pops, clicks an... | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? I watched it before I saw this thread. I've seen a few of these types of videos and his probably has the best evidence using the best equipment for showing why speaker cables don't matter. Although Amir from AudioScienceReview ran various inexpens... | |
| Audio Companies with Integrity?? Phase Technology. I bought a used center speaker that had a broken grill peg. I emailed them and asked where I could buy them. They sent me a bag for free. | |
| Check in: How quickly are streamers and servers evolving? It's evolved to StarTrek levels because my streaming is voice-controlled using Alexa, Amazon Music HD and DTS Play-Fi. No extra device needed unless I want to cast my own ripped library, little of which isn't on Amazon, which I also wirelessly c... | |
| Some interesting stats from Discogs I'm glad because I just found 50 albums in the basement I didn't know I still had. It gives me some place to dump them. 30 years ago they were virtually worthless. | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? Already have in the amplifier realm. A mint Pioneer SA-8800 for $450. Also have a Pioneer M-72/C-72 that together ran $850 and a restored Pioneer SX-3800 for $350. | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? If the bits are the same, and the compression is lossless, the sound is the same. It doesn't matter what differences people think they hear. They don't exist. And the bits of a high quality streaming service, like Amazon Music HD, are the same as ... |