We all love the -120db SINAD DACs, but it seems that loudspeakers are the limiting factor in terms of sound reproduction.
I was once told that your speakers were the most important component that would determine what your ears hear (coloration, distortion, etc)
With that said, I am glad to see these speaker measurements in ASR. I would really like and wish audio science can concentrate on how loudspeakers reproduce sound. Frequency response is one thing. But distortion and ability to handle large swings in voltage / dynamic range are another. For example, how do loudspeakers behave when you are in your listening position, not the arbitrary measurement scale of 1meter? What is the THD? How do they behave when you feed 50 or 100watts instead of 1watt?
Who cares if your dac has -115db SINAD when the best your speakers can do is -40db or -50db SINAD.
I was once told that your speakers were the most important component that would determine what your ears hear (coloration, distortion, etc)
With that said, I am glad to see these speaker measurements in ASR. I would really like and wish audio science can concentrate on how loudspeakers reproduce sound. Frequency response is one thing. But distortion and ability to handle large swings in voltage / dynamic range are another. For example, how do loudspeakers behave when you are in your listening position, not the arbitrary measurement scale of 1meter? What is the THD? How do they behave when you feed 50 or 100watts instead of 1watt?
Who cares if your dac has -115db SINAD when the best your speakers can do is -40db or -50db SINAD.
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