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I don’t know about *snobbery* per se, but high end audio woo’s focus on unscientific and unproven properties has made audio retail nearly unbearable.

Just to be safe, you may want to add some amp and DAC modeling as well.

Clearly you need to change the interconnects. She’ll notice that.

True. If you can get more people to shift their consumption dollars towards better recordings, that would be good, though. And make sure there is a market for recordings that aren't engineered for bluetooth phone headsets outdoors.

Are we 'burning witches'? It seems to me most of the rest of the audio press is promoting witchcraft and ASR is mostly just pointing out that it doesn't actually work. As long as the witchcraft promoters don't come here to promote it, they don't even know we exist.

I've encountered a few of these again recently. I can't say I like them nearly as much as audiophiles. There's the background hiss that everyone notices, but, to my ears, also the saturation/softening of strings and very indistinct and emphasized bass. It is a sort of pleasant effect overall...

That’s probably unnecessarily pejorative. But it’s true, despite talking about all his research on the forum, it‘s difficult to tell how much is fluff, since he doesn’t really post his work, he just refers to it. He recently posted a review of streaming services, full of nonsense talk on sound...

This is my feeling as a SHL5+ owner, although I also enjoy the JBL L830's in the system in my other house. Shaw maintains that a "lack of coloration" in the mid and presence range is the secret to the low-fatigue aspect of the speaker, but he's cagey as to whether that is in FR or distortion...

AR17s I think.

I had an A-7 Driving my AR speakers.

Of course people should listen as part of their evaluation and design efforts. The ridiculous idea is that measurements and listening are in any way at odds. If you listen and decide you prefer to depart from linear, or constant/gradual directivity, why on earth wouldn’t you want to know...

Have a look at their new diaper. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/why-gwyneth-paltrows-goop-faked-a-120-disposable-diaper-line/ My understanding is that they add intentionally outrageous products as part of their marketing strategy. Remember the Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue...

Goop is getting in on it https://goop.com/wellness/mindfulness/wearable-stickers-that-promote-healing-really/

Harbeth posts a bunch of samples in this thread to justify their RADIAL drivers. Frustratingly, I haven't seen these assertions connected to measurements.

I've searched this and not found a thread elsewhere. In another forum, someone posted this: (https://www.harbeth.co.uk/usergroup/threads/harbeth-techtalk-to-stimulate-discussion.80476/page-2#post-101241) And they go on to interpret it as: the curves appear to suggest that the JND [Just...

Thanks to misspent high school years, as long as it is about farmers, military campaigns, dissing proto-socialists, or piously fulfilling my destiny while my lover stabs herself/self-immolates, I’m good.

I wish people would read a little here before posting.

I have a feeling a lot of them look at reviews of the equipment they *already bought* rather than during the shopping process. Humans are weird.

Ditto, thanks for hanging around @Chris Brunhaver . Speaker design choices are really interesting, and it sounds like many of the design choices you made, which may or may not affect ASR's favored measurement contours, were deliberate, which is worth discussing and understanding. My position...

Even having that discussion here seems pointless, it is surely pointless over at Head-Fi (or Audiogon, or...). Whether they are right or not, nobody seems interested in trying to prove it. Let's face it, it is somehow a comfortable illusion that laying out kilobucks for nonsense is worthwhile...