CardinalFang;142489 Wrote: > 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.
Spoken like a true engineer! -- rajacat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rajacat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4156 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
