How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015)

Re:How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015) by cogman10 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:18PM (#27279572)

I often see claims like this from audiophiles yet the research with AB tests has generally found that no such differences actually exist.

https://hometheaterreview.com/why-do-audiophiles-fear-abx-te...

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Re:How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015) by silver_ears on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:04PM (#27280144)

That may be true for sources and amplifiers, but not for speakers/headphones.

Go to any audio store with speaker rows and listen to a few. They are hugely different, and none of them are cheap quality.

Which basically means that we are far from solving the accurate speaker problem.

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Re:How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015) by brokenmachine on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:47AM (#27299523)

Genelec/Revel/Kef beg to differ. You can measure speakers and there are a fair few accurate ones out there.

The problem that we are far from solving is the problem of people buying inaccurate speakers.

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Re:How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (2015) by randomfinn on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:27PM (#27280421)

There are also cases where the differences in amplifiers are obvious - for example some headphone/amplifier combinations have issues with low frequency response (related to impedance IIRC)

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