I have occasionally seen a product(a Technics cartridge!) chosen by a frequency and separation curves and a 1 kHz square wave and my friend who did it was correct. But 99.9 % of the time product selection needs to include careful auditioning. The few times specs can be used directly, at least in my opinion, is when they point to poor performance. I recall a famous 80 watt tube amp that the reviewer liked in spite of the fact he found some instability and it only put out about 2 watts at 290 kHz.
I Am Tired of Bogus Measurements
My expensive shoes have measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will they fit. My expensive new suit has measurements but it doesn’t matter, all I want to know is will my expensive new shoes match.
The people being misled by measruements aren’t being led my manufacturers, they are being misled by reviewers. Idiotic rankings of digital gear based on measurements outside the range of human hearing. Cancelling entire brands who put out features customers actually want as they sell to humans, not bats. The worst of these websites will rant about their own superior $$$ equipment but mot even one person will ever use speakers in a klippel matchine, they actually put them in a room! The horror. The cancelling of brands, the talking down to the customers, is bogus.
You need to measure what matters! Are the customers actually happy? Is the warranty honored? Most importantly is their an in home audition period?
I don’t need someone to tell me if I could or should like a product. My room is not a test bench, or a klippel machine. Who cares what the component measures by itself because unless its a clock radio I’ll never use it by itself, I have to interconnect it in a "system" with "high quality" cables, (as in all cables are not the same).
If you want to measure something measure how your personal system of curated components interact with your room. That’s it. The rest of the stuff you could forget because these days if a brand overpromises and under delivers they will be following a formula for losing money, an no company likes that.
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@thyname Why does it bother you, and many others, when I ask for claims to be proven? If a manufacturer claims impedance is lower, or the noise floor is lower, or .........., is it too much to ask for the proof? I have very little interest in ASR reviews for the most part. I have searched for exactly two, as I was interested in all and any reviews of these two items. The PS Audio PP was one and a step down transformer bt Equitech was the other. In both cases ASR APPEARED to show the units failed to provide the claimed benefits. I asked PS to comment directly on the ASR report. I've already posted their response. Your vitriol towards me is unbecoming and uncalled for. |
@kota1 third party measurements are there to validate manufacturer claims. But lots of people refuse to understand this basic fact. Then you have the issue is when people think their hearing is 100% unbiased and can’t be fooled. Those two combined cause issues since they are opposite of each other.
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