[Arny Krueger]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message


I dunno, I think bias-controlled tests on speakers would
be pretty inconclusive.

This from the same source that thinks that CDP 101s must have ringing,
despite their minimum-phase analog filters.

What we think doesn't always matter. There is the slight matter of the
relevant facts!

Speakers all sound so different,

Long ago many of us discovered that if you ameolorate the larger frequency
response differences between speakers, then not so much. Speakers are
getting better and in a good room, some of them can sound remarkably
similar.

I don't believe that "Controlled tests" will tell one
anything except perhaps which is the more or less
spectacular (as opposed to accurate) of the speakers
under evaluation.

Tell that to Sean Olive. They've been doing DBT speaker taste testing for at
least a decade.

DBTs are good for detecting differences
(and in speakers, these differences are so great, that
one doesn't need a DBT to either notice or characterize
them) not which is "better".

The " I don't need a DBT" litany has been proven wrong soooo many times....

And of course it comes from the people who aren't out there doing lots of
DBTs. How can you be an expert about a testing methodology that you've
rarely if ever used and are obviously not the least bit comfortable with?

Now, if one could blindly
switch between real, live music and a speaker under
evaluation, then PERHAPS, using the live music as a
control, we could get somewhere.

There's another fallacy - that you need live music to be present to compare
2 speakers????

Please notice that we're comparing loudspeakers, not live versus recorded.

And also notice that much of what's wrong with live versus recorded happens
at the live performance end of the system.