Julf
Facts are our friends
Floyd E. Toole's excellent "Sound Reproduction" should be mandatory reading (along with Ethan Winer's "The Audio Expert) for any audiophile. The third edition is just out. Toole, with a background of 50 years of acoustical and psycho-acoustical research (first with the National Research Council of Canada, then Harman) is one of the world's leading experts in loudspeakers and human perception of sound.
Here are a couple of pearls of wisdom from a recent interview:
"What I see happening around me is depressing. The knowledge of how to create stunning reproduced sound exists, but because people in general don't read, and many don't believe in science, the average consumer ends up living with inferior sound when the same money could have purchased more. Countless hours in audio forum discussions are no substitute for a few days reading peer-reviewed science."
"Far too many audiophiles follow faith-based notions that the answers to perfect sound lie in distractions like power cords, speaker wires, and exotic electronics. This is money not well spent."
https://www.routledge.com/Sound-Rep...f-Loudspeakers-and/Toole/p/book/9781138921368
Here are a couple of pearls of wisdom from a recent interview:
"What I see happening around me is depressing. The knowledge of how to create stunning reproduced sound exists, but because people in general don't read, and many don't believe in science, the average consumer ends up living with inferior sound when the same money could have purchased more. Countless hours in audio forum discussions are no substitute for a few days reading peer-reviewed science."
"Far too many audiophiles follow faith-based notions that the answers to perfect sound lie in distractions like power cords, speaker wires, and exotic electronics. This is money not well spent."
https://www.routledge.com/Sound-Rep...f-Loudspeakers-and/Toole/p/book/9781138921368