I created a thread on motivation to tackle speaker testing: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-i-get-into-speaker-testing-measurement.7904/
Proper measurement techniques are fairly well-known and decades of work has been performed to correlate them with preference. Alas, the issue is high cost of state-of-the-art measurement gear.
In contrast, headphone testing is cheaper although not cheap. I don't have a quote in front of me but I am thinking it will be between $10K to $20K (I am investigating some cheaper options). This is one third of the bill for speaker testing.
The challenge with headphone testing is that the test fixture matters a ton. Repeatability is a challenge too. So while many measure headphones, correlating them with each other is hard, and decide what is correct, challenging. I have some ideas around this but at the end, it is still a less precise world than speakers.
Of course headphone testing is much easier than speakers. They are cheap and easy to ship around and I don't need a giant room as I do with speakers to test them.
At the end, we may do both but financial constraints mandate that we do one before the other right now.
The option also exists to do neither and keep testing electronics.
So share any comments, feedback, etc. in the thread and click on the poll options.
For those of you who are visitors, this is a good reason to sign up as a member so you can vote and shape what we are doing.
Proper measurement techniques are fairly well-known and decades of work has been performed to correlate them with preference. Alas, the issue is high cost of state-of-the-art measurement gear.
In contrast, headphone testing is cheaper although not cheap. I don't have a quote in front of me but I am thinking it will be between $10K to $20K (I am investigating some cheaper options). This is one third of the bill for speaker testing.
The challenge with headphone testing is that the test fixture matters a ton. Repeatability is a challenge too. So while many measure headphones, correlating them with each other is hard, and decide what is correct, challenging. I have some ideas around this but at the end, it is still a less precise world than speakers.
Of course headphone testing is much easier than speakers. They are cheap and easy to ship around and I don't need a giant room as I do with speakers to test them.
At the end, we may do both but financial constraints mandate that we do one before the other right now.
The option also exists to do neither and keep testing electronics.
So share any comments, feedback, etc. in the thread and click on the poll options.
For those of you who are visitors, this is a good reason to sign up as a member so you can vote and shape what we are doing.