Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed.


erik_squires
Thanks hilde45....

I am astonished after my 2 years own journey to make Hi-Fi my own experience, to learn that most people have no idea how....

Reviewers sells, consumers buy.....

But how to create a Hi-Fi experience is never adress even here, only by small pieces, never facing the real fundamental problem: How to embed an audio system?

The audio community is divided in subjectivist, objectivist, sellers, consumers, engineers, regular folks and all in between these categories...

No consensus at all...

But i will repat myself, it is simple: the fundamental audio problem, after creating a new electronic design, is how to embed it....

Is it not clear like day?

:)

This was the problem i has to solve for myself in the last 2 years without which i will be till my death in the without end upgrade race to create my hi-fi experience...

It is way less costly to rightfully embed an already good system, than buying other so called better pieces to solve the puzzle....

is it not true?
By the way embedding the speakers is the more complex task ,even more complex than adressing the noise floor of the electrcal grid of the house, or the mechanical resonance of the audio parts...

why?

Because the speakers dont exist apart from the room, and apart from the ears....

Speakers+ room + ears = one not 3 elements...

It is also the more rewarding part in S.Q. results at the end....


If Toole were to test a group of fruit-eaters, durian would probably score very low--i.e. it would be rated as far away from the "standard" of good or acceptable flavor.

Yet a few people really enjoy it.

I get what Stereophile appears to be saying, but it does sound a bit desperate.  If a given speaker deviates significantly from a "classical standard", I want to know a bit more than just that the designer is an industry maverick.

@twoleftears bad example. Dr Tooles theory is wrong. The truth is that there are all kinds of speakers out there and theres no single design that is favored overwhelmingly.


Oh, sorry, my mistake.  Dr Floyd Toole, after years of experiments in anechoic chambers is clearly wrong, kenjit bicycle-enthusiast and perhaps of Bromley is clearly right.