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More on the listening room as an evaluation tool

I'd like to expand on the points I made in the thread below:

a) A poor setup can lead to an incorrect conclusion. For details on this please read the post linked below. I was listening in an unoptimized room, and *adding* a connection in the signal path made an apparent improvement. This is, of course impossible, and optimizing the room allowed me to hear this very clearly.

b) If we accept the premise that an optimized room is a better evaluation tool, NOBODY has addressed the fact that an apparently great-looking room can still be a poor evaluation tool if it is contaminated with high levels of locally generated RFI (Wi-Fi, cell phones, cordless phones, et cetera).


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Topic - More on the listening room as an evaluation tool - Charles Hansen 20:19:17 01/17/07 (111)


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