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Welcome New Members to ASR, introduce yourself here.

Wait, did I really just stumble upon an audio forum that strives to be truly objective and not have members constantly promoting snake oil, condescendingly explaining that you need 1000 hours before you bond with your equipment or having an e-pen15 measuring contest by telling everyone about the $10K dollar cables or power conditioner with vitamin e that they recently upgraded to? I must be dreaming! Joking aside, I recently found myself disillusioned after spending some time browsing a few forums including avsf*rum and found my way over here after some googling. Reallly liking the scientific posts I'm reading, especially the stickies, the amazing subwoofer/speaker tracking spreadsheets, and perhaps most of all, the general vibe of the community. Thank you kindly @amirm and everyone else who helps keep this place going!

I have a question for any old-timers or senior members around here, if one wanted to post about Audyssey calibration or related tools/scripts/optimizations (i.e. free/open source), without it coming across as "promotion" or anything, where might it be best to start a thread like that? Would it be in under room acoustics and general speaker discussions? Not planning on it right now, but asking out of curiosity.
I do believe that people bond with their equipment, and I think that can be a good thing.

While it is good to have objective standards, most of us wind up on a budget and compromising.

I think sanity requires learning to hear through imperfect systems. Isn’t that what breaking in really is?
 
I do believe that people bond with their equipment, and I think that can be a good thing.

While it is good to have objective standards, most of us wind up on a budget and compromising.

I think sanity requires learning to hear through imperfect systems. Isn’t that what breaking in really is?
Oh, I totally take your point. My ears/eyes/brain are equally my best friends and enemies with A/V, haha. The fact that I overwhelmingly prefer my Sennheiser HD 800 S after applying parametric EQ tuning over stock, yet do this in a way that also focuses on the Harman target and frequency response and largely objective work of oratory1990, is a great example of complimenting subjectivity + objectivity. I was using humour in my initial post, but I have met my share of (often intelligent) people who blatantly dismiss ABX testing, double-blind comparisons or evidence-based discussion in favour of biased beliefs such as that they have some pseudo-spiritual connection to their room, chair, headphones, speakers, or vacuum tubes, and completely ignore or reject any objective discussion or attempts to analyze/test equipment without emotions. This applies to many aspects and areas in life, but it is a breath of fresh air to find a community that focuses on truth and facts through evidence in an area and hobby they are passionate about. :)
 
Hi everyone, new member here but longtime reader of the reviews and discussions.
Looking forward to participating in some of the fun talk. I greatly appreciate everything you all do for the hi-fi world! Especially appreciate that this forum isn't promoting $8000 boxes of dirt for grounding.
One of my friends was interested in building a good system for the first time recently, and pointing him to the excellent reviews and discussions here worked out nicely.
I often go between the US and Japan for work, my setup is in Japan however.
Nice to meet you all and hope you all had a great new year as well.
 
Hi everyone, new member here but longtime reader of the reviews and discussions.
Welcome. :)
Especially appreciate that this forum isn't promoting $8000 boxes of dirt for grounding.
Ha, Amir tested one of those for kicks. Safe to say... it did nothing at all. :D


JSmith
 
Ha, Amir tested one of those for kicks. Safe to say... it did nothing at all. :D
I've read a lot of the snake oil tests here but hadn't seen this one, this one takes the cake!! Thanks for the fun read, it's impressive what people are willing to buy, and the "improvements" heard by our creative minds are interesting too.
 
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