And before this digital lark, turntables and tapemashines and tuners were most satifying to have a play with. re-arming and re-plinthing my old Transcriptor Skeleton, was so much fun, that I have never stopped. I fully understand people sticking to the mechanical high fidelity. after all there was good sound in the 20's. Why wouldnt it be good today ?
This goes back to the time that the mosfet came on to the market. After a gestation period of x, Hitachi decided it must be a good component for an amplifier.
So they made one. It measured superbly in all electrical tests and was described as the perfect amplifier.
The only problem was that people did not like it.
Not measurable accurate, but as good as my memory
So they made one. It measured superbly in all electrical tests and was described as the perfect amplifier.
The only problem was that people did not like it.
Not measurable accurate, but as good as my memory
I should have said I was referring to an earlier couple of posts regarding fault finding! and resolving issues...
If you do not measure and record what is happening (this includes DBT listening tests and subjective listening) all you will do is go round in circles... I am sorry to disappoint but it is called development and the only way to design and improve things...
We can all quote anecdotes of when things go wrong in engineering, but it still dose not diminish the fact that proper engineering practice is the only real way to make improvements, whatever some may believe and how many anecdotes are thrown in the mix..... most unproven by DBTs.
DBT and subjective listening tests are part of the development cycle and like measurements results should be recorded and correlated with design changes....
If you do not measure and record what is happening (this includes DBT listening tests and subjective listening) all you will do is go round in circles... I am sorry to disappoint but it is called development and the only way to design and improve things...
We can all quote anecdotes of when things go wrong in engineering, but it still dose not diminish the fact that proper engineering practice is the only real way to make improvements, whatever some may believe and how many anecdotes are thrown in the mix..... most unproven by DBTs.
DBT and subjective listening tests are part of the development cycle and like measurements results should be recorded and correlated with design changes....
Yes true in all but a few electronic areas.
In Hi Fi if it sounds good it is good.
If it measures good it still has to sound good
In Hi Fi if it sounds good it is good.
If it measures good it still has to sound good
Oddly its only in Hi-Fi that this holds tho. Which leads you to the logical conlusion about sighted ears only improvements.
Yes, i never forget those thingies.
Sounded hard/ bright and somehow lacked the bass if my memory serve me well.
My friend is always watching my ears when I listen to make certain I'm not imagining something that isn't actually there..😀
Sorry, a little fun
Sorry, a little fun
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No. In hi-fi it has to sound like a reasonable copy of the original sound; sounding "good" is a matter of taste, so some prefer it to sound somewhat different from the original. This is not hi-fi, but perfectly OK as long as they don't insist that their preferred modification is somehow more true to the original than a smaller modification.drewburn said:
Bingo!
This reminds me of the joke where an audiophile keeps moving his speakers around the room, and they sound better and better each time he moves them. After a time, he finds he's moved them back to the original location....
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