Resonance, standing waves and room modes
Room modes Resonance happens in systems that can oscillate. Rooms are such systems, and their resonances are called room modes. Loudspeakers excite these room modes more or less depending on their position, creating so-called standing […]
TestHiFi microphone calibration
TestHiFi microphone calibration is important, because TestHiFi measures the HiFi capability of a sound system by sending a complex test signal through the sound system and recording the signal played back by the sound system. […]
Acoustical interference and comb filtering
Interference is what music rooms imprint on the reproduction of our music. Take a seat in the „sweet spot“ in front of two stereo loudspeakers. If both radiate the same frequency, their signals add up […]
HiFi – what exactly does it mean? High Fidelity definition, DIN, EN, ISO, IEEE?
What is the HiFi standard? Nowadays, if we want to know something, we look into Wikipedia and here we get: High fidelity (often shortened to hi-fi or hifi) is a term used by listeners, audiophiles […]
The origin of the idea TestHiFi
I have turned into an audiophile The idea TestHiFi started several years ago, when I wanted to listen to better music. I was fed up with the wishy washy, just ok, and loud enough sound […]
HiFi store owner appreciates TestHiFi – now customers will better understand HiFi
Vienna, on a sunny afternoon in June, we entered the store “Raum-Akustik” of Georg Wölfl in the 8th district. In the first second you recognize, this store is unique. Georg opened it in 1977 and you […]
Wavelength
Sounds, pure tones and sinusoids. Most musical sounds contain a complex mixture of frequencies. Hence, the spectrum of music usually has a wide range. But for measurements and theoretical considerations we often look at so-called […]
Why ambience, the room you are listening in, influence the sound you hear?
The environment, the ambience or the room you are listening in, influence the sound you hear, no matter how good the sound source or the reproduction system are. TestHiFi limits the ambience influence on its […]
TestHiFi user experience leads to a better listening experience
Just recently a TestHiFi user has contacted us, after he observed some variance in ratings. Various tests of the same audio system using two iPhones presented these different ratings. However, since TestHiFi delivers pretty stable […]
