Enclosure of KH120ii is very well controlled and not resonant at all - I would say less as the old model. When i have time i will do a few measurements with acceleration sensor.
Haha I agree, but I can think of a few people that are actually pretty knowledgeable, such as possibly the person from GR Research. There are people that swear they can hear differences from good cables vs $1,000 dollar cables, DAC chips that measure differently below human threshold etc.
I find people who claim such things either have more money than sense or are trying to sell you something. Lol. My pet peeve is people claiming they can hear a difference after burn in...
I should add that my ADAM monitors seem to be similar in that regard. I have 3 pairs total of ADAMs. They all measure essentially identical to their twin on and off axis. I have a triplet of the ARTist 5 and one measures slightly different at 10kHz over a small fraction of an octave (I use it as my center channel speaker even though I’m sure there’s no way I could hear the difference). I’m not sure how they achieved this 10 years ago, but I sort of assumed they were individually DSPed. I’m not even sure the AX series has the capability though. I don’t think they do. So maybe I just got lucky, but none of the passive speakers I’ve measured, well come to think of it none of the other active speakers I’ve measured have been that close. I’ve measured Mackie, JBL, BEHRINGER, and KRK active monitors. All the other active monitors also rattled when I did the sine sweep, but the ADAMs and all the passives didn’t. I don’t really think it’s luck judging by the competition. There must be some serious QA going into these better studio monitor designs.
Of course. That's what they are about.
There's also a very strong ATC fetish there, the funniest thing is they also consider this forum as lab coats personel cosplay and force themselves to not measure stuff because you know, ears are the only measurement instrument they need. ATC isn't publishing any meaningful data for a reason and it resonates with them very much. I removed my account there after reading too many descriptions of a word clock generators and cables sound properties
This is an absolutely terrible idea if you want to make music for other people to listen to, though. Because they won't be using whatever speaker you chose specifically for however it sounds for your music.
I'm talking about so called engineers and especially mastering engineers, which when confronted with blind test or measurement of any kind cover their ears and scream "if it sound good it is good". I found quite a few times major problems with plugins just by testing them in plugin doctor, like for example generating DC or oversampling not working at all, but when they see plugin doctor or any graph they just panic. I'm a sound guy too, had GS account for 15 years, recorded/mixed/mastered more than 500 albums, but there's a border I just don't want to cross
I guess it is a mix of experience / "brand" / pride in that case. They are used to working by ears and have mixed and sold a lot of successful albums and trust that what they hear is good no matter how it measures. But as for mastering it does sound weird cause in my book that should be about reproducing the original recording as true to the original as possible (even if the orginal recording sounded crap).
I was curious about the speakers a No1 artist uses in recording studio,so I got the screen shot from Lewis Capaldi documentary.
From my almost 2 decades of experience I think majority of mastering engineers aren't worth the price and this profession will die first because of the AI. I started doing mastering by myself to save my musician friends from destroying their music 10 years ago and now it's a big part of my job but I won't cry after it. I have a subscription to Mix With The Masters website and there's a lot of video material about "top tier" mastering, it's just horrible. Pure voodoo with explaining how 0.05dB boost at 20Hz is giving the music foundation it lacked, I'm not exaggerating, it's in the video from Sterling Sound studio, one of the most famous facilities (with ATC monitors of course).
ATC, ATC and ProAC, but that's a recording studio and those almost never sound or measure that good because of the big board in front of the ears, window behind the speakers etc. It's a compromise within a compromise, near field monitors you see are there because mains that high are usually not even turned on
And he was wearing some Sony headphones in the scene back while singing (although there's lots of different ones on the board of the recording engineer too).
Just don't tell @Pearljam5000 ,we may have to call the emergency.
I don't know about the power, since I know many users are stacking spare woofers as they blow out regularly, foam surrounds also are a factor
