Measurements are at best 30% predictors. People rely on their eyes to hear. That is a fact proven in peer reviewed study. Expectation bias rules all. If you blind test two speakers, and like one above the other consistently, but it is ugly and the other is beautiful, you will consistently...
wow! thanks a ton. the reference 5 looks like a winner if its in my budget. still looking for other recommendations, not necessarily reviewed with competent measurements, because large expensive speakers rarely are.
"THE WIRES," my wife cries, I am sick of all these wires. Who can blame her, I have two home theater setups each with 9 speakers plus 2 sub woofers.
The other day I was accidentally listening in stereo only mode and was shocked when I discovered it. This made me think that maybe my old ears...
If you own them, feel free to comment, otherwise your opinion has zero value. Not a good value, zero value. My wife spends about 10k a month on clothes, to her, they are a good value. Chanel is expensive. Spending 3k on a speaker means nothing to some people and is a years income to others...
Made in China right? Oh well, let’s help the economy of the only nation he’ll bent on The total subjugation of its people. Wait, wait.. there is also NK
Only for mass market items. Boutique items have enormous price elasticity because of lack of competition and low startup costs for production. Look at fashion houses, very little difference between a Chloe bag and a Chanel bag, but Chanel commands a 5x price premium… it ain’t quality. I...
My take is that the article has academic merit but the title is pure journalism. Academic papers often have titles that run on for fifteen or more words. Changing the title to something like… an evaluation of the merits of using SINAD as a metric for audibility in typical listening...