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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Re: Out of curiosity

1) I'm vaguely aware of this publication. I will look into it further. Of course, the financial survival of magazines like this depends heavily upon these beliefs and their promotion, do they not?

2) I saw this argument coming. The subjective difference in performance in the car was designed in, by engineers changing numbers (I use to race myself). It is not random, or magic. The test driver supply's the subjective feedback. The engineer changes numbers. The same applies to an audio component. If Creek et al is consistently creating designs that sound better, then it must be by engineering design. If is not, then it is by Black Magic, which I cannot accept.
If the Engineers at Creek can measure these differences, then they can design it into the product. If they cannot measure these parameters, then they cannot design it into the product. Maybe an Alchemist could, but not an Engineer.
BTW, I would bet a large sum of money that if Sony was to rebadge the *exact* same Creek amplifier with one of their faceplates, the sound would degrade significantly.

3) Nor do I, but that does not stop such claims from being made in "hi-end" audio...quite often :-).

4) True. But I am also aware that people have heard differences in tests when absolutely nothing has changed. So there might be some ground in between.
For every example like the one given I could probably give you 10 where the opposite was true. That is far from universal and also very subjective in nature, so conclusions can be, well, rather inconclusive.

5)I've seen your site :-).

6) There is added circuitry with sonic signature in passive crossovers. More so IMHO when placed between the amplifier outputs and transducer. There is added circuitry of electronics with its sonic characteristics from the time the sound wave hits the recording microphone diaphragm. I tend not to pin point it only at certain locations ;-0.

7) We are all a product of our experiences.

The journey continues.

cheers,

AJ

The threshold for disproving something is higher than the threshold for saying it, which is a recipe for the accumulation of bullshit - Softky


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