So, you have clearly commercial interests.
I shameless think it is a useful "guidance".
No interests. I don't get any money from their products or "have to" like them. Just limits what can be said on discussion forums or hifi magazines. Keeping my mouth shut is quite adequate. Stop replying and that will happen also here.
What top 10? If you mean Score in review index, one manufacturer has few models there. Every designer/manufacturer has own design goals and philosophies. I don't have any direct influence to R&D so don't try to put this on some jealousy.
I agree
But speaker reviews are still poor - too limited to single feature, and I don't believe any progress. Cheers and take care!I still don’t understand why you are venting your grievances with ASR here on this thread, rather than on a thread appropriate to the topic.
I suppose the way I think about it is from the following two perspectives:
He doesn't sound grown-up and professional enough and also not a good enough communicator to work in a significant position in any company, so I doubt what he says, he feels like a troll to me.
Kimmo hasn't been very polite in this thread - and I'm not compelled by his premises about impulse response - but his software, VituixCAD really is top-flight, and quite broadly used.
Given your tone here, I can imagine why that is. It's a shame really given the knowledge you can bring to the table.
It's not truly poor, just one-sided. At the end of the day, frequency response (off and on-axis) is the major factor in speaker sound, so a good first filter. And indeed many more factors should be included when deciding on a certain speaker design. But the ranking is just a ranking by preference score, one can also make a ranking by price, size, or many other parameters. And @amirm's ranking is just his personal preference. You can just choose to completely ignore that. Would it be good to have more rankings? Sure, add distortion profile, waterfall (but I'd rather see it normalized by cycles, not ms), or whatever you want. But most of that data is already available anyway for anyone to see. Could there be more? Probably. I'd love to see a multitone, like for DAC's and amps, but apparently, that measurement doesn't work well at the moment with the current Kippel setup. I also like the dynamic test that Erins is doing for instance.
Who are those people? I could be wrong, but I don't think you will find very many of them. And the ones you will find are probably beginners that would not (yet) understand the other intricacies anyway. You could argue that learning them one preference score as a ranking is a bad thing, but I see it as a nice entry point in the interesting world of speaker measurements.
Wow, that is surprising, but yes that is indeed very good software, I've used it before for it's SPL Trace functionality. I take back what I said in my previous post. As to why he is being so unconstructive in this thread is a real contrast, oh well.
Love your system, hopefully one day I'll have the same one
Are those the pedestals that's been discussed, here-and-there?
It would look interesting if you painted one side orange the other white to match the walls, kind of look as if the speakers were floating in the room.
Sheesh, that is fresh
