opaqueice;176828 Wrote: > This post sums up what really lies behind this debate. It's not about > blind testing at all - it's about the fact that a large fraction of > audiophiles are obsessed with a set of things that don't make a bit of > difference to audio reproduction, and feel compelled to defend them. > > The things that measure perfectly are the things that matter the least > - that's just a fact, sorry. But have you ever measured the frequency > response of a speaker in a real room? It's abysmal. Has it ever > occurred to you to wonder why, even from down the hall, you can > distinguish music or voices playing through speakers from the real > thing? It's not because you need to cryo treat your digital cables. > Have you considered the difference between two speakers, plus a > subwoofer, or using 3 speakers, 4, 5, more? Those differences are > huge. Room treatment, speaker placement, active crossovers? Digital > signal processing, room correction, equalization? Everthing there is > far, far more important than ebony hockey pucks. > > But for some reason there's a group of people that bought into a myth > and can't get past it. They hate BT because they can't deal with the > results. They claim measurements don't matter for the same reason. > And they deride and attempt to silence (witness this thread) anyone > that dares disagree.
Well, don't look at me! I don't believe in cryo treatment. I'm fully aware of the fact that it is easy to distinguish reality from reproduction. My measure of a good system includes sounding like something approaching a live performance when heard from another room. (Not just in the sweetspot.) If it doesn't swing, then it's not good. I don't give a rat's ass about woodo stuff like magic pucks. I have on-going room treatment efforst. And so on. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
