Do measurements correlate with listening experience at all?
Trust only my listening experience Since we have started to regularly foster discussions on Facebook, it is impressive to see how many comments people make on the inappropriateness of measurements. Discussions on measurement usually go […]
Loudspeaker Measurements – Part 1
Part 1 – loudspeaker time domain and 1 m data I would like to show some real nearfield and farfield measurements to underline my last blog about basic loudspeaker „frequency response“ measurements. As always, be […]
Why is an audio system not “just correct”?
Mankind made it to the moon, but a just correct audio system seems to be impossible. What do I mean by an audio system? For this discussion, an audio system is everything between the air […]
Measuring Loudspeakers – intro
For me as a loudspeaker designer and acoustician measuring loudspeakers is mostly about the far field pressure response (magnitude and phase). With such measurements we can determine frequency domain characteristics like the on-axis and off-axis […]
Should speakers be time and phase coherent?
This blog adds to the wide topic of how we localizes sound and what a HiFi system should be capable of. The earlier blog “ghost fundamental and engaging sound” talked about this and this blog […]
Midrange Room Influence
The room influences midrange frequencies with a mix of modal and interference based effects. Allow me to declare the midrange frequency (MF) range to reach from 100 Hz to about 2 kHz. This is the […]
„ghost fundamental“ and „engaging sound”
Music makes you sleepy on some seats in a concert hall. The same music on other seats in the same concert hall totally engages you. On the latter seat it makes you totally feel the […]
The Sound of Distortion
Some personal thoughts about Distortion During the last years there seems to be a refreshed trend to relate sound characteristics of amplifiers to their distortion characteristics. I have no expertise about amplifiers and distortion, since […]
Which audio measurements are for whom?
This question implies there are audio relevant measurements selected from a variety of measurements and out of those there are different audio measurements of relevance for different users. And again, there is an assumption of […]
Why is flat frequency response so important?
Frequency response is a way to describe the output of a speaker system. Talking about speaker systems we can look at it as a whole or as individual components. With components reaching across the whole […]