Great Editorial from Sound on Sound

[SuicideSquid]

This editorial ran in the latest edition of Sound on Sound. SoS is a magazine more oriented to pro audio / recording and engineering of audio than to home users and listeners, but I think the underlying point of this piece is one well-taken:

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/church-components

In general I think the pro audio world is more resistant to audiophile nonsense and bluster than the home audio world. Few studios stock "high-end" interconnects or expensive power cables, for example. But nonsense and woo sneak their way in in other ways, and it's great to see a mainstream publication call that stuff out and demand evidence to support some of the weirder and more fetishistic claims that get made in that world.

 

[Scrivs]

Thanks for linking the article. Short, sweet and to the point, veils destroyed!

 

[mhardy6647]

I'm sure that industry buys knockoff microphones to save a few bucks when "the specs are just as good"...

 

[Cbdb2]

I'm sure that industry buys knockoff microphones to save a few bucks when "the specs are just as good"...

Mics are like speakers, knock offs are never identical, and if they can afford it studios will buy a Neumann or AKG before a Chinese knock off. When engineers go into a studio to record the first thing they look at is the mic selection.