Anyone who's bought hifi has a financial stake in it. Take away all those you list and the punters would still be arguing.
You cannot voice a loudspeaker without listening to it.
Why "voice" at all? Why not do the sums, make the measurements and design the product? What's "voicing" go to do with anything?
You'll find even the most staunch 'objectivists', e.g. Alan Shaw of Harbeth, voice by ear. Your measurements would be lucky to identify the difference between a sax and a trumpet, they are only useful as a basic starting point. If it sound like shite, it's shite, it doesn't matter what the scope says!
Why "voice" at all? Why not do the sums, make the measurements and design the product? What's "voicing" go to do with anything?
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Perhaps just hit the mute button, sit back and enjoy the scope readout. You could save a fortune on speakers & cables and still enjoy the music.
Designing by ear is a recipe for disaster and inconsistency.
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Why should I bother with something as inconsistent as music? I just love the sound of my 1kHz line-up tone.
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Making a amp is like a recipe making a meal and different ingredients give different flavours and most brands have a house sound that is engineered in.
If they do that, then their amps can't be transparent, so of no interest to anyone interested in High Fidelity (as opposed to HiFi)
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If they do that, then their amps can't be transparent, so of no interest to anyone interested in High Fidelity (as opposed to HiFi)
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Ive built a dozen passive preamps that im sure you would agree are all transparent but they all sound different.
Ive used Alps blu Noble dale stepped dact seiden and different resistors in shunt mods and they all are transparent but sound different.
Used 3 different types of resistors on the shunt on the seiden and they all sound different.
Your speakers measured 3% distortion at 250Hz. Not High Fidelity then?
If you say so, I wouldn't. Did you evaluate them in a blind AB test?
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This is my last post on this forum.
I hoped this would be a place where folk could say how their kit sounds and ask others for advice on the sound upgrades would bring but thread after thread just gets crapped on with it all sounds the same and you couldn't tell blind.
I'm sorry but this place will turn into zero gain rapidly and i'm gone.