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Horn speakers do this. Near field does this. It’s not quality. It’s the relative absence of reflections. Horns tend to have irregular...

Seems like a juxtaposition of several things. Unshielded twisted pair is no better and usually worse for noise sensitivity than coax...

Alternatively it is doing what it is supposed to do, which is retrieving information and synthesis a reply without judgment. The...

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I find it's very important to check the attribution of information. Here's an excerpt from Copilot as an example. The initial reply does...

Not to dwell on that subject overly, but you are correct of course. Unless one is focussing on a narrow technical question or function...

There's no such thing as a "neutral" AI model. No matter what there is an editorial decision made by humans of what training data to...

For these systems there are pre-filters, post-filters, and also RAG. Pre-filters halt queries that are known to produce an undesired...

ChatGPT isn’t one model, it’s an agglomeration of many models, which also exist in different versions. So a query asked of ChatGPT will...

If you’re willing to forgive the last eight months, Sonos gear just works. Not great, but in the direction you wish Bose had gone...

/ I was reformed after I saw a copy of The Audio Critic at a newsstand in Denver. It wasn't the complete end of foolish purchases - I...

I agree that live rock music is not good. Classical music is entirely different and I'd strongly disagree with what you've written, I am...

I’m much more interested in blind speaker testing, but I know that’s a lot harder to pull off.

There are $100,000 speakers passive speakers that measure way worse. Calling a $2,600 active speaker with built in DSP and wireless...

It depends on the purpose of the test... It's fine once you've demonstrated that there is a real difference. A/B listening is fine...