A very interesting development IMO:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ncement-asr-will-be-measuring-speakers.10725/
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ncement-asr-will-be-measuring-speakers.10725/
And my Eminent Technology 8Bs!Ability to reproduce a square wave always seems a measurement never used these days....probably because few modern speakers can make a decent stab at it. Of the golden oldies Quad ESLs and Ureis could apparently manage the trick....so a definite correlation with quality.
Absolutely. But the High Priest/Acolyte model is not always a great look. A good balance to the sneery subjectivists over on SBAF though.Or someone willing to make a significant outlay of time and money to provide for free what some consider to be a very useful service. IMO he should be applauded.
Agreed. I don't participate there partly because of that. Amir himself seems very polite and patient.Absolutely. But the High Priest/Acolyte model is not always a great look. A good balance to the sneery subjectivists over on SBAF though.
Ability to reproduce a square wave always seems a measurement never used these days....
It seems to me that equipment measurements appear to divide people who don't have experience of making and interpreting measurements (and most people naturally don't). A typical response is to generalize and polarise to either "measurements mean nothing" or "measurements mean everything."A very interesting development IMO:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ncement-asr-will-be-measuring-speakers.10725/
It seems to me that equipment measurements appear to divide people who don't have experience of making and interpreting measurements (and most people naturally don't). A typical response is to generalize and polarise to either "measurements mean nothing" or "measurements mean everything."
In reality measurements mean something - usually something useful. But you do have to be prepared to work out exactly what that is rather than just generalize.
I'm not a member of SBAF (yet) but actually find it a pretty useful resource for headphone frequency response, CSD and distortion measurements.Absolutely. But the High Priest/Acolyte model is not always a great look. A good balance to the sneery subjectivists over on SBAF though.
Quite right. It is not the measurements as such but the way people use and misuse them, particularly salesmen. In the case of speakers they show the speakers potential, but it is only when they are used in any particular room that we can tell whether or not they are any good for us as individuals, and of course some people want to analyse recordings and others to create a convincing illusion of the original sound.It seems to me that equipment measurements appear to divide people who don't have experience of making and interpreting measurements (and most people naturally don't). A typical response is to generalize and polarise to either "measurements mean nothing" or "measurements mean everything."
In reality measurements mean something - usually something useful. But you do have to be prepared to work out exactly what that is rather than just generalize.