jeffluckett;142481 Wrote: > Well, really it is part art, and part science.
Nope, still don't agree. It's part science and part economics. It's a cost compromise and therefore you design a speaker or other component based on your own personal set of distortion preferences. You audition it at home to see if those compromises will work in you system and you may for example choose a speaker with a rolled-off high end to balance out an cartridge that has a peak in the same region. The speaker may suit the acoustic imbalances in the listening room more than other speakers. You can meaure that, it's not art. There might be experience people that know what might work and how to balance a system out in this way, but if you had the right gear you could measure it. Components like the TACT systems do exactly this and we're told they have a big impact on reproduction. The "art" if there is any, is in choosing a set of compromises that appeals to the largest audience - or reviewers if you want a good write-up. That isn't because it's immeasurable, it's because you choose not to bankrupt the company spending years developing a $5 billion dollar speaker and instead come up with a design that is inaccurate in a pleasing way. Even then it's not "art", it's market research and understanding your target audience, which is why Bose and B&O do so well. The balance of the reproduction of their gear sounds impressive and "HiFi" to the mass market. I suppose you say that the modders know their audience and so are applying an art of sorts, but I'd rather get a mod based on solid engineering principles. -- CardinalFang You're only young once, but you can be immature forever... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
