Popular Post Blake Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 I do like the measurements and info provided here. My hope is measurements and inquiry will continue to help advance the sonic performance of audio devices. What I'd like to see down the road is further refinement in correlating measurements with the sound qualities perceived by the listener. Anecdotally, it seems that in some instances better measurements don't necessarily correlate to subjective listener perceptions of a better sounding product. What measurements really matter and which ones do not? Or, what is an acceptable range for a given measurement, and beyond that measurement range, the measurements cease to matter in terms of perceived sonic performance? If a product is fairly consistently praised by a relatively larger sample size of users with divergent systems/rooms/hearing abilities and subjective preferences as sounding more like the "real thing" but some measurements of said product are less than ideal, why is that the case? We know a lot, but there is quite a bit more to learn and for me the science of correlating product measurements to subjectively perceived sonic aspects (soundstage size, image specificity, tonal qualities, "body", etc) needs further exploration. Of course, this is nothing new. We've had products in the past like the cheap ODAC that was supposedly "perfection" due to measurements but in terms of sound quality very clearly it wasn't. I think having more reviewers with measuring equipment and collaboration among knowledgeable folks (thanks here to @GoldenOneand @Miska) will hopefully advance this part of our audio hobby so that in the future users could possibly use the various different published measurements to help them to narrow down choices of which products they should consider, while eliminating others, given that user's sonic preferences. RedFuneral, mourip, GregWormald and 5 others 8 Speaker Room: Lumin U1X | Lampizator Pacific 2 | Viva Linea | Constellation Inspiration Stereo 1.0 | FinkTeam Kim | Revel subs Office Headphone System: Lumin U1X | Lampizator Golden Gate 3 | Viva Egoista | Abyss AB1266 Phi TC Link to comment
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