More listening to music played out loud – More sex!
It sounds a bit superstitious “more listening to music played out loud – more sex”. Germany ranks in the list of superstitious countries pretty low. But there is this one habit when raising a glass to […]
Why could a bad speaker be measured as good at the listening position?
Well, as usual, easily asked and rather difficult to answer. What is a bad speaker and what would we measure at the listening position? These two questions are also relevant for providing an answer to […]
LS Measurements at various distances
I would like to continue from last time, discussing measured data at various distances. Including some nearfield effects. Loudspeaker, room and placement remain the same, the time response has been shown last time. For some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
„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 […]