CHORD Alto Speaker and Headphone Amplifier Review [Video]

[JSmith]

Now that is a great idea!!!

JSmith

 

[TNT]

I think "hate" is a word that is a little too harsh. Frank critique is not "hate". One should be cautious to not inflate or misuse superlatives... no one gains anything by that...

 

[JSmith]

Members get 1 egg a month, so they could save them up and multi egg you or just do a less dramatic fly by egging but more regularly.

Well, we wouldn’t want to egg them on... that could become eggregious, scramble their plans and might even hatch into an eggsistential crisis of some kind. Let's not put all our eggs in one basket, or things could get turned sunny side up.


JSmith

 

[Liberal Democracy]

Well, we wouldn’t want to egg them on... that could become eggregious, scramble their plans and might even hatch into an eggsistential crisis of some kind. Let's not put all our eggs in one basket, or things could get turned sunny side up.


JSmith

I think you've over egged the pudding here...

 

[dogmamann]

Thank you Amir for the video, It's just confusing to me that's why i voted poor. you have a not clean amplifier and a great listening test.
But if you take in account the price and the way it looks and functions withe the colors and so, then i still stand behind my vote.
What if you're color blind?

I had topping D90/A90D Before. The chord mojo 1 despite poorer however good enough for transparency specs sounded all the time somehow more natural to my ears. It’s not just on headphones but even on my Kef reference speakers connected with a NAD amp. I don’t know what is at play but every single time the topping stack sounded very brittle and lacked body in tje bass. Voices sounds very clear however artificial on the topping. I eventually ended up selling the topping stack. Every single smsl, topping, Schiit, jds products had in the past had the similar tone. Chord products have a sound to them some how and I really don’t know what metric shows that difference. It’s always smooth.

 

[Old_School_Brad]

As if I didn't get enough hate posts after my review here ,

Honestly, I think it could be be much worse. I expected a lot more pushback from those deeply invested in the subjective audiophile perspective. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see so few negative comments on your latest videos.

 

[antcollinet]

I may be one of those that you referenced re previous hate responses in your most recent video. Mine was meant to be challenging (based solely on scientific principles and the scientific method), but certainly not hateful, though admittedly maybe a bit snarky. My apologies for that. I do stand by my logic, however, since "listening experience" in each of your audio reviews receives little attention, and often is an afterthought, a short paragraph before your conclusion/recommendation. Of course, your underlying (unquestioned?) hypothesis equates measurements with listening enjoyment, but is this always true without exception? It would be a fine experiment for you to test this hypothesis, to discover you loved listening to a device which later proved to have substandard measurements. Knowing the measurements, BEFORE your listening experience, is likely biasing your judgment, a placebo-type effect, and in scientific inquiry something to assiduously to avoid. As you know, fruitful scientific inquiry is often propel by the exception to one's model/hypothesis/theory (e.g., the double slit experiment). If you want to think of yourself as a genuine "audioscientist," then - listen first, test later, and report your findings to us. Be prepared to be surprised, like all diligent scientists eventually are.

When you do your own listening tests, do you do them properly, scientifically - controlled - accurately level matched with a multi meter - and blind.

Just to see if you can hear a difference at all, let alone which one you prefer. Because if you were to "put your own adherence to the scientific method to its own test" and control for your own biases, I'm pretty confident it is you who will find yourself surprised.

Like many of us here have been in the past.

 

[amirm]

Knowing the measurements, BEFORE your listening experience, is likely biasing your judgment, a placebo-type effect, and in scientific inquiry something to assiduously to avoid.

I have no easy way of translating power into actual subjective loudness with specific headphones. This is why I listen with special content that pushes the amp to distortion/clipping. As i explained in my video, the distortion will be unmistakable so not something that requires controlled testing.

If you are saying to do this for DACs and such, no, I am not doing listening tests on them. You can buy perfect DACs with no premium so don't see a reason to see if listening tests justify buying a less than perfect product.

 

[raif71]

Maybe we need a ' Egg ' button so folks can express their ' hate ' by egging you .

Members get 1 egg a month, so they could save them up and multi egg you or just do a less dramatic fly by egging but more regularly.

I of course have too much respect for you Amirm , so would never dream of egging you ... .. .

Eggcellent

 

[Old_School_Brad]

I may be one of those that you referenced re previous hate responses in your most recent video. Mine was meant to be challenging (based solely on scientific principles and the scientific method), but certainly not hateful, though admittedly maybe a bit snarky. My apologies for that. I do stand by my logic, however, since "listening experience" in each of your audio reviews receives little attention, and often is an afterthought, a short paragraph before your conclusion/recommendation. Of course, your underlying (unquestioned?) hypothesis equates measurements with listening enjoyment, but is this always true without exception? It would be a fine experiment for you to test this hypothesis, to discover you loved listening to a device which later proved to have substandard measurements. Knowing the measurements, BEFORE your listening experience, is likely biasing your judgment, a placebo-type effect, and in scientific inquiry something to assiduously to avoid. As you know, fruitful scientific inquiry is often propel by the exception to one's model/hypothesis/theory (e.g., the double slit experiment). If you want to think of yourself as a genuine "audioscientist," then put your own adherence to the scientific method to its own test - listen first, test later, and report your findings to us. Be prepared to be surprised, like all diligent scientists eventually are.

The way you write, I can’t see anyone interpreting your comment as hateful or anything like that.

I agree -I’d also prefer listening and subjective evaluations before measurements for the exact reason you mentioned. But that’s probably not going to happen. Amir has his own approach and his own reasoning for doing things the other way around. So we just have to take the subjective comments for what they are, which is probably how all subjective comments should be treated.

 

[BDWoody]

I moved a few posts that were getting off topic to a separate thread where this discussion is also taking place. Let's keep it there please.

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[solderdude]

A non-technical remarks...
Why is the image mirrored ?
The volume knob now appears to be on the right side of the device.

 

[ObjectiveSubjectivist]

A non-technical remarks...
Why is the image mirrored ?
The volume knob now appears to be on the right side of the device.

Picture (video or photo) looks "nicer" when the person on it is on the left rather on the right side.
I'm not sure where but I've read it somewhere sometime ago.
Or it's my imagination.

 

[amirm]

Picture (video or photo) looks "nicer" when the person on it is on the left rather on the right side.
I'm not sure where but I've read it somewhere sometime ago.
Or it's my imagination.

Indeed. I mirrored it long time ago after experimenting. I undid it now that it is causing readability issues with labels.