Floyd Toole

As I explained in post 1391, this is not the origin of the "Harman curve" that matters. It is the result of a very different experiment...

Truly fascinating, but not surprising. As I think I made clear in my book and the slide show, for a variety of reasons most purely...

Yes A perverse thought experiment :( I can only see that kind of result occurring if I had not done multiple-loudspeaker comparisons...

Section 3.3 in the 4th edition discusses this topic. It is now possible to do a much better job than these solutions - inexpensive and...

It seems that you have not read my book, especially the 4th edition, where this topic is elaborately explained. The stereo soundstage...

As an engineer by training and profession (now retired), I've always found it difficult to understand why someone would wish to bake...

Interesting. I am the person who started the loudspeaker "Harman curve" thing but I don't understand your comment There is another...

A valid question. If wonderfully "alive" music is performed and captured or created in a recording control room, it would be good if...

YES, check out Section 12.4.3 in the 4th edition. Hemi-cylinders - deployed correctly - work superbly, can be a style "feature" and are...

Rubbing voice coils can linger unnoticed - another "adaptation" perhaps. It is wise to occasionally run a slow pure-tone sweep 20 to 20k...

A good point. I think there is a fundamental difference between preferences in beverages, where there are no standards - perhaps water...

I have no explanation for what you heard, but the choice of a curved surface diffuser instead of the slotted or cubed ones was, in my...

Figure 9.8 from the 4th edition of my book: A simplified two-dimensional display of what we can record, store and hear. At the bottom...

The audibility and audible effects of early reflections are undoubtedly important, which is why many years ago Sean Olive and I...

"Grain" is one of those subjectivist audio terms that over most of my life I have never identified with. I heard resonant colorations...