I had requests to do tutorials on YouTube so I thought I do a quick one on Decibel. It is actually not what you think in that I don't really explain it.
But rather, show the proper way and reasoning in a live demo using my Audio Precision software. So even though you may know what a dB is, you may want to watch the video to see the AP in action.
Hey Amir,
This type of "instruction" video, and your recent ones that dealt with unnecessary products, such as expensive cables, decrapifiers etc, is exactly what our hobby needs.
There are many that argue"what's the problem", people should be allowed to spend their money as they wish, no one's killing babies. However, people are being misled and spending a lot of money on gear that provides no benefit. The problem is that our hobby is viewed by the outside world as being stupidly expensive and full of crackpots causing our younger people to being turned off from getting good gear.
We all know that you can purchase an excellent system for a small room for less than US$500. All you need is wifi, a smart phone or computer, connected to gear such as a raspberry pi streamer, topping e30 DAC & JBL 305 or ADAM TV5 active speakers. I would argue this is in reach of most of the population except those in financial difficulties. Add a Tidal subscription for content and you are good to go.
The real problem is that there is so much BS being propagated that only those that frequent sites such as this have the knowledge to put together such a system.
It is really really really important that people in our community with a subjective bent understand the power of bias and how it affects their decision making. Whether it be expectation bias through mis leading commentary or their brain playing tricks on them when they listen "harder" to new gear.
This nonsense has gone on for far too long and you, together with Archimago, Mark Waldrup (Dr AIX), John Siau from Benchmark Media and a small number of others are leading the fight back to rational thinking using measurements and basic maths.
Thank you and well done!
