This topic has gone viral and is active on many forums. I suspect that Mark is well aware of that.Can someone who knows Mark invite him to join ASR and, in particular, this thread? I think we all would benefit from his participation.
Yippee, That's exactly what I was hoping for.This topic has gone viral and is active on many forums. I suspect that Mark is well aware of that.
He didn't say he was suspicious. He actually made measurements that demonstrated that.But you can't make it a general policy that anyone can go around saying anything they like on the basis of 'suspicions' and then put the onus on the company to prove the suspicions groundless.
I didn't expect an event I was at to be talked about on here, especially like this. The venue (an audio store) has a headphone area for the younger crowd.
It's not libel if it is the truth.
I’d be intrested in a beer group buy, but only if it was fine beer..., then tbh I might overlook all the skullduggery.I apologize in advance for putting you on the spot, but I am genuinely curious: what would prompt someone to waste an evening letting somebody try to sell you on magic power cords? Was that just part of an event with some actually interesting programming? Was there a really well equipped and staffed open bar? Did they have a hot new chef doing the hors d'oeuvres?
I joined my local audio club - for a year. During that time I was spammed with "group buys" for various scam products, and invited to meetings that were mostly about similar topics. No mentions of open bars or James Beard Award nominated catering, either. So I never went, and did not renew that membership.
Unfortunately that doesn't make the defense any cheaper. There are, unfortunately, plenty of dimestore mob lawyer wannabes out there. See, e.g. sad ol' Rudy.
No, if i understand it correctly the vendor guy did not sell the 17000 $ cable, but was a representative for the two other "quite" expensive mains cables.
And for good reasons there is something like due process......neglecting it did already a lot of harm in the past. That people like to throw it out of the window because they strongly belief in something does not amaze but surely saddens me.
I use FABER ACOUSTICAL SOUNDMETER.
Calibrated for iPhones.
Highly recommended!
(Yes, this is a commercial from me for a product I think delivers at a reasonable price; the app may be free now).
And yes: 2 dB is well outside of margin of error.
What passes for an objective acoustic measurement now seems to be an iPhone surreptitiously hidden under a coat while sitting in the audience for a demo.
OTOH, which iPhone is it calibrated for? Surely there are differences in microphone response from model to model?
The Soundmeter one is calibrated for all iPhones AFAIK.
Having an enormous equipment collection and spanning many decades of service and sales, I can confidently say that speakers have always been the weakest link. Speakers definitely improved en-mass through the mid 1980s, but when we are converting less than a few percent of the electrical energy to sound, there is clearly a lot of room for improvement yet to come.
CD players were great from day one. Some of the content wasn't.
Laboratory grade amplifiers sometimes simply don't play well with tough loads- I have some that are flawless on my bench and unstable in the real world, including a few DC-Daylight power amplifiers from Denon with specs to die for.
I'm just saying what a lawyer would say. All I would have to do would be to show that such measurements would be heavily influenced by:Where did you get the "hidden under a coat" part?
In July here, people don't tend to wear coats very much.
Yeh, hopefully it autodetects the iphone model and calibrates accordingly. Couldn't verify this online though.
I'm using NoiSee which performed similarly to FABER in the test results I linked earlier.
I'd say looking at the test results that it would be overstating the accuracy to say the margin of error is less than 2dB. More like 3-6dB IMO. Have you got different data from the link I posted maybe?