He doesn't have personal experience. He has "professional experience".
Right, just like those audiophile reviewers and audio shop salesmen. "Professional experience". Belief that makes them immune to bias. Hence the term "Studiophile" and all the studio belief nonsense that comes with that, as Toole explains and you subjectivists dismiss for "experience".
Toole cites the results of hundreds of people performing viable controlled blind tests, not "his" experience. Studiophile believers dismiss that because it conflicts with their personal beliefs, not the result of any blind tests. Of course there are sometimes pecuniary interests and motivations involved, just like with their audiophile "Professional" brethren.
Earl Geddes also disagrees with Dr. Toole using the same professional experience.
Illogical nonsense. If Earl disagrees, then he must cite the blind test data, not appeal to authority like you did.
Those aside, Ethan is a staunch objectivists in many areas of audio. Don't damn him with a wide brush when you know that already.
Sure, I said something like 90%. Which makes it awfully hypocritical to dismiss the 10% which happens to be the business one is in, bass "traps" and such nonsense for
home living rooms.
Vs dedicated basement HTs, etc.
Oh, your "personal" experience flies but Ethan's doesn't?
It isn't posited as "evidence" against established perceptual science, by a "professional", as those devoid of logic would imply.
Why don't you put your speakers behind a curtain and compare it against another brand and tell us how it went?
Why don't you stop evading the question and state clearly what they are to be blind tested for, what conflicting science claim...or any specific claim whatsoever?
Ethans products/claims conflict with science and Toole takes exception with it enough to write yet another article:
https://www.audioholics.com/room-acoustics/room-reflections-human-adaptation
The fact is listeners
don't prefer iso-ward "treated" rooms for home listening like Ethan/Don suggest,
they do. Based on their sighted biases, expectations and "personal experience".
I rarely participate in internet forums of any kind, but I do look in from time to time. Occasionally my name appears, along with expressions of what people think I believe about certain things. I make an effort to ensure that anything I write or say reflects the results of accurate measurements and double-blind tests done by me or someone else. These are not personal beliefs, but the responses of numerous listeners, which may or may not have included me; most did not. Some of the investigations I refer to in my book were done in as geographically disparate places as Japan and Germany, so even “culture” is embraced. I wrote the words, but the data being reported are as neutral and impersonal as possible.
Reflections within listening rooms are real and numerous. Some would argue that they all are problems to be eliminated. Others take a more philosophical view that they just provide information about the room, and the brain can figure it out. I’m somewhere in the middle, but leaning towards the latter. The science that has been done so far seems to be on my side.
-Dr Floyd Toole
He's not coming here either Amir, because of Ethan and his enablers, like you. Yes, I asked.