As a first post, it was very telling.
How do you think audio kit is designed and developed? Do you think electronic engineers just throw random components into a box and shake it until something miraculous happens?
for your first post.
Unicorns and flooby dust, is how I understand it.How do you think audio kit is designed and developed? Do you think electronic engineers just throw random components into a box and shake it until something miraculous happens?
Or would you expect them to use science backed engineering know how?
It might be that music appreciation is mostly subjective. Designing and evaluating reproduction kit however is mostly engineering.
Have a
It’s all good, and in the end the best engineering does not create the best sounding equipment. Way more examples of brilliant engineering that sound like total shit, than there are of simplistic fundamentally basic designs that sound spectacular. But that is subjective as well ;-)How do you think audio kit is designed and developed? Do you think electronic engineers just throw random components into a box and shake it until something miraculous happens?
Or would you expect them to use science backed engineering know how?
It might be that music appreciation is mostly subjective. Designing and evaluating reproduction kit however is mostly engineering.
Have a
But isn't the latter (even allowing the point) an example of good engineering? What exactly are you talking about?
Minimally engineered (or as I prefer to call it, badly engineered) amplifiers lack unconditional stability, short circuit and other protection, and whilst may operate OK under controlled circumstances, are flaky and unreliable. Properly engineered amplifiers will stand reasonable abuse and be long-term reliable.
Spot on, my old co worker used to love doing the screw driver across the speaker terminals test to show how well designed the McIntosh amps were that we serviced.
So what do you want?
...and a golden drop of Retsyn!
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Swish and Flick!
I thought that was an orgasmatron. But it might have vibrated
If can appropriate a phrase from our good friends across the pond: "This guy just has to be taking the piss."From new Stereophile:
"I'd hardly settled into my chair when he (Ted Denny, Synergistic Research) demonstrated the effect of his $1500 "Vibratron," a roughly six-feet-tall metal rod with two baseball-sized spheres, one gold-plated (for warmer sound), one silver (for brighter sound; mix and match to taste). They're resonators that Denney modeled after "forgotten Greek and Roman technology." To hear him tell it, the ancients knew how to use rounded vessels to improve room acoustics and intelligibility.
Next, we were on to the benefits of his MiG SX bidirectional equipment footers, $995 for a set of three, which you can install pointing up or down according to the sound signature you prefer. The MiGs are claimed to "improve nearly every aspect of system performance," starting with a "denser soundfield." I could hear the difference, couldn't I?I told my host I thought I did, but that I wasn't committing to a final opinion."
I always liked Von Schweikert speakers, the association with Synergistic is unfortunate. "No Ted I don't hear it" would have been a better response.
Wasn't the Vibatron featured in Woody Allen's "Sleeper"?.
Von Schweikert Audio, VAC, Synergistic Research, and Scott Walker Audio
On the third and last day of the Florida Audio Expo, I realized I hadn't listened to Von Schweikert speakers in donkey's years. With only 35 minutes to spare till closing time, I made my way to the third-floor room where, according to the show literature, I should hear a pair of Von Schweikert...
The look on Woody Allen's face when he came out of that thing after a session was priceless.I thought that was an orgasmatron. But it might have vibrated
