Recent content by Jim Shaw

I see the real power of AI as being able [eventually] to consider more information resources than most human researchers would. The real weakness could be skewed or prejudicial results that AI might believe are truths. In the foreseeable future, AI probably doesn't have much ability to ascertain...

Followup question: How many minutes does Steve G. listen to a speaker before reviewing it? -or- What brand of cereal box did Danny cut his engineering degree from?

You might enjoy this ChatGPT exchange: Q: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? The question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin is a theological and philosophical question that has been debated for centuries. The question was first posed by medieval Christian...

It is wrong to expect AI to be factually correct all the time. Its database is the internet, and we all know how un-flawless that can be. So far, AI is correct about as often as a gypsy fortune teller. It's just cheaper.

Engineers might use ICE to simulate the entire circuit. But in-circuit emulation only helps predict how a circuit performs, not how it might 'sound' to a human of indeterminate taste. [For that we need a witch doctor, like a subjective reviewer with sticks, bones, hokus-pokus, incense, and...

Replace 'any' with 'many' and I'm almost on board.

This, and a buyer of Waterford drinking glasses is unlikely to drop test them against those from Libbey.

Non-technical audio tinkerers cannot get their heads around the 'transfer function' between amplifier output terminals and speaker terminals. Instead, they write volumes of mostly nonsense about tight bass, shouty treble, glorious midrange, etc. The amplifier output transfer function is a...

ASR is, at least, another available voice in component reviews. At most, it is measurement-based reviews to traceable standards. How a reader weighs ASR against an eloquent subjective reviewer is best left to the reader. But the value of traceable measurements cannot be ignored. Just because...

Yes, well there's all that and bunches more words, motives, prejudices, perceptions, etc. But when the pushing and shoving and preaching have died down, the laws of physics remain as overlords of our senses. Some of us may, for example, prefer train travel, others jets, and still others books...

Is it April 1, 2023 already?

I suggest you subscribe to Audioholics on YT. :)

Yes, if you believe that music/illusion is somehow 'enhanced' by distortion. That might beg the question, "do we wish for high truth or enjoyable fakes in sound playback?" I think many here might secretly prefer the latter, even while professing the former. Either is valid; just be honest with...

True. LPs, at their best, were never very good music media. They were simply the best we had for mass distribution until 1982. Tempus movet on.

Did you watch the YT video? His explanation is reliant on different mastering practices, not dubbing. But I agree with you, too.