Did he?I SOLD my Genelecs after hearing Amir bash their amplification
Did he?I SOLD my Genelecs after hearing Amir bash their amplification
Like when ever?I SOLD my Genelecs after hearing Amir bash their amplification (btw we both love their products). It led my to buy a beefy amp and spend way more on speakers, thanks Amir!
Great measurements almost always mean that engineering team paid careful attention to best electronics engineering practices … and that definitely has its own value. Of course individual consumer tastes are important and if someone doesn’t care about measurements when choosing piece of audio equipment then that’s ok too.I don’t currently own anything that has been reviewed here. It’s been a long time since a reputable company has made a bad sounding amp, preamp, or DAC. Speakers are a personal taste and mine seems to align with Paul Barton‘s. I don't think chasing another 0 to the right of the decimal point on a distortion test or another db of SINAD are worthwhile pursuits. I don’t really care how my amp, preamp, or AVR rank in the ASR hall of fame. They sound good to me and that’s my prime requirement. What Amir does here is review audio equipment. Nothing more or less than Stereophile or Sound and Vision. Test results and some listening impressions. His tastes are no more or less likely to align with mine than any other audio reviewer. Buying anything solely based on a reviewer’s opinion seems foolish to me. I did this once with a turntable and it was the worst POS audio component I have ever owned.
One of the silliest things in the audiophile world that I see frequently on discussion sites is a variation of this: “I am considering buying XXX brand’s new audio gadget. I tried one and it sounds great. However, I can’t find a review of it anywhere. I guess I’ll have to wait”. It’s not enough that I like it. I can’t buy it until some self appointed expert likes it too. I’ve gotten occasional great deals on things because reviewers panned them based on things I didn’t care about.
There is more to best engineering practices than optimizing a certain set of measurements and there is even more in total product design. Some companies have decided to differentiate themselves with ultra low noise and distortion test numbers. This doesn’t mean other engineering teams couldn’t do it. It may mean that they had a threshold of what they thought was audible and when they achieved that, they worked on other things. For example, every solid state amp or preamp I looked at on Mcintosh’s site has a THD spec of .005%. They seem to have decided that is good enough. Time and money spent reducing noise or distortion further and further below audibility is wasted unless you have decided that’s the thing you want to be your claim to fame in the market.Great measurements almost always mean that engineering team paid careful attention to best electronics engineering practices … and that definitely has its own value. Of course individual consumer tastes are important and if someone doesn’t care about measurements when choosing piece of audio equipment then that’s ok too.
I agree....There is more to best engineering practices than optimizing a certain set of measurements and there is even more in total product design. Some companies have decided to differentiate themselves with ultra low noise and distortion test numbers. This doesn’t mean other engineering teams couldn’t do it. It may mean that they had a threshold of what they thought was audible and when they achieved that, they worked on other things. For example, every solid state amp or preamp I looked at on Mcintosh’s site has a THD spec of .005%. They seem to have decided that is good enough. Time and money spent reducing noise or distortion further and further below audibility is wasted unless you have decided that’s the thing you want to be your claim to fame in the market.
I care about measurements. The engineer in me demands it. On the other hand, only so much. My current Rotel stereo amp has an a weighted S/N ratio of 116db. The THD spec is .03%. That makes for a pretty ugly SiNAD. In my view .03% harmonic distortion is inaudible. The noise is inaudible too so it is transparent. It’s not the king of the SiNAD contest but it puts out twice the power of an AHB2 and cost me half the money.
The problem (as others here have stated) is that SiNAD combines distortion and noise into a single number. Harmonics at -60db you probably can‘t hear. Noise at -70 is clearly audible and a bit irritating. The bane of vinyl and tape.In that context a SINAD of over 70db is within the acceptable range - and anything beyond that is a bonus....
I would look askance at something with a SINAD under 70db.
The problem (as others here have stated) is that SiNAD combines distortion and noise into a single number. Harmonics at -60db you probably can‘t hear. Noise at -70 is clearly audible and a bit irritating. The bane of vinyl and tape.
There is more to best engineering practices than optimizing a certain set of measurements and there is even more in total product design. Some companies have decided to differentiate themselves with ultra low noise and distortion test numbers. This doesn’t mean other engineering teams couldn’t do it. It may mean that they had a threshold of what they thought was audible and when they achieved that, they worked on other things. For example, every solid state amp or preamp I looked at on Mcintosh’s site has a THD spec of .005%. They seem to have decided that is good enough. Time and money spent reducing noise or distortion further and further below audibility is wasted unless you have decided that’s the thing you want to be your claim to fame in the market.
I care about measurements. The engineer in me demands it. On the other hand, only so much. My current Rotel stereo amp has an a weighted S/N ratio of 116db. The THD spec is .03%. That makes for a pretty ugly SiNAD. In my view .03% harmonic distortion is inaudible. The noise is inaudible too so it is transparent. It’s not the king of the SiNAD contest but it puts out twice the power of an AHB2 and cost me half the money.
Hello. I have ordered bowers 706 s2 without demo as demo is not possible where I live . I will be pairing them with my old Harman Kardon 3380 stereo receiver. I have heard reviews that these speakers sound bright / harsh so one cannot listen for too long ? Did you have to do any tonal adjustments to 706 s2 ?I recently bought some. 706 S2.