Recent content by nhunt

In case you end up having to do this again, shoulder dollies are amazing! My wife and I got 2 130lbs subs up the stairs pretty easily with those (cringing a little as I write that..).

That's awesome.

Again, did Amir ever say he wouldn't measure active speakers? What do active speakers have to do with this topic at all?

Did Amir say he wouldn’t measure active speakers? I don’t get what the fuss is about here. Maybe it should carry on in a different Active vs Passives thread (with some evidence based discussion :))

Well, I think Amir mentioned in this thread that there is a company in the US who will do measurements as a service. I think it was a 1000 dollars plus some more service charges per unit or something along those lines.

@Hrodulf any chance these will get added to Sonarworks soon?

I'm interested in this upcoming presentation that might further classify ice cream flavors: I'm not sure if this is new research or a recap of their findings on demographics from earlier studies. Edit: Looks like it recaps this study from March: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=20289

Digging this up. I got to play with (2!) Focal Clears this weekend again and after EQing them to oratory1990’s settings, there is this laser like treble peak at ~11khz. I messed around with sweeps, tone generator, and Hotel California to get a sense of where it was at (with a FR plug-in) and...

Has there ever been a double blind test or double blind choice experiment regarding too much EQ? The only thing I’m aware of is Olive’s paper on room correction preferences.

If you are already EQing them to taste, I personally don’t see an obvious upgrade out there in the price you are looking at. The massdrop sennheisers are a great deal. They have good channel balance, not too many high-Q peaks, relatively easy to drive, low distortions, comfy, sturdy, and are...

A showdown of multiple room correction/algorithmic EQ systems with objective measurements would be pretty neat. I’m not aware of anything since Sean Olive’s paper.

Yeah, he calls out in his faq that he never removes that notch at 9-10khz, so you are right that his settings shouldn’t affect the theoretical 10khz notch effect.

From the 2018 paper, it looks like it includes the range between 50hz and 10khz.

According to this, https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/sound-quality/soundstage, soundstage and imaging can depend on a 10khz notch that I don’t think is accounted for in the Harman curve. There is a giant notch in the hd800s and Hifiman Edition X for example. When I get home I’ll play...

Shower thought: “lossless” seems like a powerful term that united the objectivists and subjectivists under a common goal. Don Draper: “nobody wants to lose something!”