And for the love of god, AG, can you please delete Tubebuffer's posts... Please?
The worst sentence in audio writing
. Literally, hearing new details and delicacy in music I’ve heard a thousand times before.
I read this sentence from another thread but didn’t want to pollute it with this thought or to harp on my own opinion about the gear being discussed.
What I did want to do was point out that this sentence is one of the worst, most fraudulent sentences in all of audio, and we have all read it from a dozen different reviewers. Anytime I read this I shudder. It’s not that I don’t believe the reviewer who writes this, it’s that I do. To understand why I hate this sentence you have to know my own personal values in audio.
- Smooth frequency response
- A laid back presentation
In order to make gear which has details never before heard the gear must exaggerate some sounds to the detriment of others. There’s no such thing as a neutral piece of gear that also makes you hear things yo have never heard before.
It’s a type of con, in that sure, you get new details, but they never talk about what you are giving up. The beauty of this con is that there’s all sorts of frequency response tricks and distortion gimmicks which will make you feel this way, each different, each not neutral. Each time we experience this "never before heard details" is like a new hair cut. It isn’t better, it’s different and that is exciting.
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Since no two setups ever sound exactly the same there will always be some difference in the details of the sound and the details of the new sound may or may not have been heard before. The new details may be welcome or not. Depends on the listener and what those details are exactly. So nothing all that amazing to see here really. Things tend to most always be different. Unless mass produced. Oh and distortion is always bad when it comes to accurately reproducing details of the recording. Not all distortion is always unwelcome either. That’s all. |
Which is exactly what makes this sentence an over-used cliche. The implication is that this new piece of gear is better than everything else heard before when in reality it's just different. |
The implication is that this new piece of gear is better than everything else heard before when in reality it's just different.
This is possibly the number 1 greatest fallacy forever perpetuated by audio reviewers.
It's been their bread and butter ever since it was realised that technical information and scientific facts don't sell as well as cosy speculation.
And they're not changing their diet or singing a different tune anytime soon.
We can expect continued scorn to be poured on the likes of Audio Science Review / Audioholics etc for some time yet.
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@cd318 Go back to ASR you have absolutely no idea what is being discussed. |
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