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This is why I'm confused by everybody on this thread dunking on the frequency response of this subwoofer. It's going to get ~12dB/octave of cabin gain in the bass frequencies, and it is also designed to be shoved under the front seat in a wide variety of vehicles that are going to do a lot of...

The internet is unfortunate sometimes. You post article after article which I love and appreciate. And then of course the one time I disagree, well, here I am interacting and disagreeing. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for all of the amazing work you do before I get back to questions...

Yeah. Lot of folks here are a bit out of their element when it comes to car audio, it seems. This is a totally different ballgame than home audio. With a home audio sub, you want smooth anechoic response from the factory. The assumption is that the end user will position the subwoofer in a...

WOW, this is cool to see. I've been toying with the idea of a slim, under-seat subwoofer (no other place it can go) for a while. Exactly. At least... that's what I hope. The intention of this kind of sub is to simply fill in a half octave or two below your door speakers. It assumes proper...

I've got the Pebble Pro and Pebble V3 and honestly, I'm very impressed with them for what they are. These are great for situations where there's not really room for anything else. What they offer for ~$50USD is remarkable. They're a great example of smart modern affordable speaker design: dirt...

Hah! I never knew that. Thank you for the knowledge. My parents always set their clocks by the radio so that was a good enough "sync" for me. By the time I was living on my own I just used The Internets.

I was thinking less of the (extremely small) drift on quartz watches (which had almost entirely supplanted mechanical by the time cell phones became ubiquitous) and more about the error involved in setting the watch in the first place. You either had to wait for the hourly tone on the radio, or...

Amen. I look at a mechanical wristwatch and I think about how many thousands of years it took humankind to progress from sundials to a mechanical watch that anybody can afford and I am filled with awe. (A path literally paved in blood at some points, with WWI and WWII driving the mass...

As a watch guy I 100% agree with everything you said. :) A wristwatch is a more convenient way to check the time than the phone in your pocket - and more polite to boot, which is a severely underrated aspect. Unfortunately. But, yours and my opinions aside... for better or worse... cell phones...

I like a lot of speakers, even studio monitors, that others consider ugly. This really is ugly, though. (Of course, for studio use, that shouldn't matter)

It's a great example of the "Starbucks Effect" which I just think is fascinating. Starbucks' meteoric rise in the 90s obviously put a lot of coffee shops out of business. But, paradoxically, the net result was.... way more coffee shops not owned by Starbucks, because they expanded the overall...

Great watch! I bought it for my brother a few Christmases ago. At the time, he didn't care for metal bracelets so I put a brown leather strap on it and that really looked great too. I got the green version (different body, but similar retro looks from the Recraft line) for myself. I love the...

That should be an absolutely nuclear level of power. Then, you need a second one, so you can run bridged monoblocks... but, you might have to register that kind of weapon with the authorities.

I have the Crown XLS (76dB SINAD, 336W into 4ohm) reviewed by Anand a few years ago: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-crown-xls-1502-amp.6062/ I know many here disagree but for me? Subjectively? Having effectively unlimited power makes up for...

It's great to see Micca carrying on the tradition of these speakers. I'm not very active any more, but on the budgetaudiophile subreddit the MB42/MB42X and the Pioneer BS22 were our "cheapest recommended speakers, if you must buy new" for a looooooooooong time. He was the king. He's really the...

One somewhat nefarious thing (not the only nefarious thing, alas) about the current AI boom is that LLMs like ChatGPT have a built-in "moat" which is why companies are pouring money into it. (In biz terms your "moat" is "the thing that prevents somebody else from coming in and taking your...

Reminds me of the hype cycle around "The Cloud." "The Cloud" was stupidly overhyped to death. Most of it was stupid and meaningless. It was not the answer for everything, or even most things. But eventually it "won." I mean, where do you keep your music and photos in 2025? Where do your friends...

Let's back up a step here. You claimed that only Google-scale companies have the resources to put objectively competent sound into a little enclosure like this. I questioned that claim. That absolutely does not mean that I think high-end audio, or the Rick Sykoras of the world are obselete...

It's a crowded, competitive marketplace with lots of people reviewing products. So I think there's a clear sales benefit to making a speaker sound good. But that's what I'm saying. Even a smaller player can do all of this relatively affordably now; it's even within the reach of hobbyists...

Honest, non-rhetorical question. Is "proper" audio engineering for a device like this really that expensive? I realize it's not pocket change but it feels like it should be in reach for most companies launching products in this space. I am talking strictly about the audio portion... not the...