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In Reply to: RE: High end audio = musical accuracy, you must be kidding! posted by KlausR. on January 28, 2008 at 07:32:03
"On the other hand, a lot of things about the performance of cars is measureable, such as how fast it will go, how quickly it accelerates, how fast it stops, how efficient the engine is, the capacity of the air conditioning unit, and so on."
Oh its you again with your self agrandizement of your purchase of active studio monitors!! You are the typical, "I bought this and I am smarter than everyone here so my choice must be the only "accurate" choice". What rubbish.
Again, do you take engineering specs as "accurate" or do you take the listeners subjective opinion that it closer to what one would hear live (assuming an appropriate recording) as more accurate?? I choose the listener over the oscilloscope and THIS is the only logical choice for audio.
Your "specs" are not well correlated with the listening experience and the Class D amps that are built in are audibly inferior to a top SET amp. Even inexperienced listeners can tell as long as they are interested!
Your arrogance in this regard is astonishing! It is clear you think that measurements are the definition of audio accuracy because that is how you chose your gear...it must be right, right? Well, I am here to tell you that it is your opinion and not a fact that holds any water with experienced listeners.
Now if you want to tell us that very flat frequency response with Class D amps in a relatively compact box speaker sounds gives a good facsimile of live, then you are entitled to think so but I am sure in hearing it I will find a dozen ways that it is not even close. Besides, very flat frequency response has been shown by B&K (the microphone profis) to not be what people perceive as natural. A gentle downslope of about 1db/octave starting in the bass is a more natural balance. Your flat anechoically speakers with wide, flat dispersion will likely give a very bright sound in-room. This is a fact I realized when I equalized my speakers to in-room flat. It was painfully bright...lesson learned. Who ever said that wide dispersion was necessarily the correct idea for an in-room speaker design anyway? Guys like Earl Geddes, Bill Duddleston and Brian Cheney now advocate a controlled restricted dispersion and my own experience with dipole speakers, which have a restricted dispersion as well...ask Sigfried Linkwitz, shows this to give excellent in-room results.
Your pro monitors are probably fine for near-field monitoring but not far field and the recreation of soundstage and imaging for starters. Their frequency balance in the far-field is probably not so correct and tipped up in the highs.
As to MP3 vs. cd, do you seriously expect us to believe that you cannot hear the difference?? If so then you really need a new hobby and fast! It is painfully obvious even to the completely uninterested listeners. They tell me, "Yes I know it sucks bad on my home stereo but through the (heavily dynamic and bandwidth limited earbuds) earbuds it sounds OK". All the blind tests prove is how insensitive it is as a test method. No one has successfully proven that DBTs are sensitive to a whole host of audible phenomena, it is just basically assumed that they should work.
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