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It seems that Audio Research is in deep trouble: https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/whither-audio-research.36751/

What stand-alone, hardware based audio visualizers are there available? I sometimes like to have some visual information about the music, eg. how low does it go, how much stereo effect is there, and also just for the fun of it. I currently use foobar2000 with plugins on my laptop, but am...

Pretty good measurements and review of the new Dynaudio Focus 10 active speakers in Stereophile: https://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaudio-focus-10-active-loudspeaker-measurements

A new version of Sennheiser HD 560S has arrived. The big question is, does it sound (or measure) differently ? In a post on Reddit, a user has posted the following:

This is a transcript. I have done my best :). I am Danish, but not an expert English speaker, so there can be some mis-translations. The original video is at: Original video (Danish language only). The most interesting part is the interview with Freddy, the chief of production, in the...

"The Hummingbird Clock is a new kind of timepiece that uses the second-by-second fluctuations in the frequency of the UK mains power supply to time and date digital recordings. It is designed to provide a tool for investigations into civil and human rights violations, and state corruption...

I just found this book: "Open Circuits - The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components". It has beautiful pictures of the inside of electronic components. See this chapter sample: https://nostarch.com/download/OpenCircuits_Chapter1.pdf

A fellow sceptic :-) "Humans are incredibly susceptible to bias and we tend to hear what we want to hear. This is why we have so many people claiming that amps, CD players, cables, etc. sound differently from one another. But if they were put to the test, these people most often could never...

I just found a link to this new software (on Hacker News): HIFIScan: https://github.com/erdewit/HiFiScan From the page: The goal of HiFiScan is to help equalize an audio system to get the best possible audio quality from it. There are two ways to do this: 1. Manual: The realtime frequency...

The heavier the better ? https://www.stereophile.com/content/gryphon-apex-stereo-power-amplifier-measurements

Any sound a human can hear, can be measured. Even if it can be measured, it is not certain that it can be heard by anyone. Whether a sound can be heard or not, can be determined by ABX tests. If a human claims to be able to hear a sound, it is possible to either: a) devise a measurement that can...

So we like to measure and rank DAC's with regards to their SINAD, regardless of whether the differences can be heard. But what about speaker cables, they also have specs, also regardless of whether the differences ca be heard :-) If you want the audio components with the best specs, then you...

How can a company like Klipsch keep this on their homepage? Quote from https://www.klipsch.com/blog/digital-vs-analog-audio : "Like images, audio signals can have a limited bandwidth if recorded digitally. Once a digital recording is made, the bandwidth is set in place. An analog recording is...

What are the best (preferably standalone) digital effect units for experimenting and listening with different "sounds" (tube or "analog" sound) on your otherwise transparent hi-fi system (where the audio comes from digital sources) ? Would you use some stereo guitar effect/multi-effect units or...

Just a theoretical question :) Would you gain anything by have a setup using 4 speakers for a stereo setup ? For example having 2 Genelec "Ones" for the left channel, and 2 Genelec "Ones" for the right channel. How should they be placed ? Would it be possible to get better sweet spot coverage...

Are there any recent additions to this 2012 "old classic" ? The Ten Biggest Lies in Audio https://www.ecoustics.com/articles/ten-biggest-lies-audio/ Audio lies: 1. Cables 2. Tubes 3. Analogue 3a. Hi-Res 4. Sighted listening tests 5. Feedback systems 6. Burn-in 7. Bi-wire 8. Power conditioner 9...

Does anyone have some example measurements as to how typical speaker FR changes with volume? I know that Amir test speakers at 86dB and 96dB, but how does it work at low volume? The reason that I am asking, is a discussion I've seen on which speakers/hifi equipment sounds best at low volume...

Ted Denney, owner of Synergistic Research, who are renowned for their very suspicious audio products claims, apparently feels so exposed by Gene DellaSala from Audioholics, that he is going to "war" against him. Poor Gene, having to deal with that...