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    Michael Fremer on Audio

    Is that a serious question?? Look, dunno. this is about the first thing I have seen him do, you mean he has ton's of this sort of stuff? Anyway, if the beginning is an indication of what to expect for thirty years, then pass. And no I did not, thanks for asking.:D
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    Michael Fremer on Audio

    ?? He has an audience, there are people there, in the room, with him, as he records his rant. As such, he is playing to his (willing and no doubt agreeing) audience. For that reason I do cut him some slack, I can get that a lot of it is tongue in cheek and designed to raise a knowing...
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    Michael Fremer on Audio

    the entire guff up to about 0.30, the crap about blind testing and (if it were for food) we'd blindfold you and close off your nose and apply what looked to be 'massive claws' of some description in the mouth area. You know, bullshit like that. I GET that you were playing to your faithful...
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    Michael Fremer on Audio

    Ahh, so it WAS all that strawman crap about dbts in the first part. Why all the evasion then? Ok, what about fremer. He's a (offensive word deleted- warning issued). I actually like that he is enthusiastic, but wish he could be a bit intelligent with it as well. Did he specifically mention...
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    Michael Fremer on Audio

    No, which is why I asked. After all, you did post the video, I assume it was for a reason, so I asked. I think we all have had similar experiences as he recounts after the silly rant, even down to the 'hey, it comes from the middle!' Unlike mike, I just smiled and refrained from saying...
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    Michael Fremer on Audio

    you talking about the 'second part' greg? or the first, the rant? all of us understand the second part, yes even those he derides. the first part is surely a game, 'how many strawmen can you count?'
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    Psychoacoustics of Room Reflections

    no worries amir, thought my last sentence 'salvaged' it! I did not really think you meant it as iron clad. Still, the important point (?) to grasp is that..well the lesson I have learned is that I did not 'treat my room' per se, or if I used that term as I did in the past then it could be...
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    Psychoacoustics of Room Reflections

    Just a few minor quibbles (perhaps) here. In that 'other thread' :p I mentioned we would be doing a room to room comparison and videoing the results, the comparison being the same system in two identical rooms, one 'treated' and the other untreated. Btw, the differences kinda did come across...
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    Sydney Audio Show 2012

    Did you ask them to play something? I was there with a few others, they put on anything the person wanted to. I certainly played something that would not have been acceptable elsewhere:D But then again, naturally my music is not as good as Keiths. Nor is it as revealing ;) Of course it...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    Thanks. This is something I have looked at (albeit briefly) in my own situation. Firstly, I think we need to make the distinction between HT and stereo listening. My guess that most here are into 2 ch mainly. Anyway, I most certainly am, movies bore me to death usually. So seat to seat...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    You mean your own user power and knowledge? Well maybe, but another way to look at that is 'self fulfilling prophecy'! In any case, I was trying to answer a question you asked recently about the dcx, even if you have since rejected it. The short answer is 'yes, it can do all that you need'...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    Not sure he said that. re the dcx, it has more than enough power to do up to six distributed subs. With a bit of trickery, not that you'd want it, you can easily do more. It has enough resolution in the parametric parameters, and has full control over delays and such. Dunno if this would...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    Ahh, I use impulse graphs all the time, but never from that 'far a distance'. Yep, once you scale waaay back then et voila, they are the graphs! And in raising those questions, I also outlined how I would test my hypothesis.. Ran a few quick ones this morning, want to do a bit more...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    right ON soul brother!:D
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    hi john, as good as it is to find something we can both agree about! I want to make clear that 'I am simply not convinced by the graphs provided', that's all. A subtle but important distinction I think. Don't worry, we WILL find something!!:D "why" I am concentrating on that graph is exactly...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    Ah, thank god for that! Yeah I made a mistake in my last post you responded to, said I had included the wrong graph (by mistake the RPG one) so when you answered...well anyway, glad to have it sorted out. Anyways, now the correct graph has been replanted in all our minds :p, do you know how...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    No worries, twas a joke. Ok, let's be sure here (I mucked up which graph I posted, I was sure you would be able to work out the one I meant but your answer confuses me a little now). In the graphs below, the graphs to the right, below, are generated by computer modelling? In other words...
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    new muse album

    not sure if this will get much of a listen in this here parts. I enjoy most of a muse album (but please, spare me the love songs or ballads!). Muse often comes up on audiophile hate lists for quality of production..well I reckon these guys are not babes in the woods, and can probably employ just...
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    Psychoacoustics of Room Reflections

    well, if we are after typos (?) in addition to that there is the following Listening Tests This is all fine in theory but how does it work in practice? There is good news and bad news. The bad news is that little of will likely make sense to you! The good news is that for a change...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    Ahh, flushed you out! :D It might pay to reinforce a few things first. To start with, how about something I agree with completely. Hopefully to show I am not challenging you per se, but trying to get a better handle on it all. But sure, you can also change the room. Question is what is...
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    Need suggestions. A.k.a "Whats your favorite....."

    One that has not been mentioned yet is Kari Bremnes. Not sure what it's actual title is, prob something unimaginative like 'live' haha, very well recorded, excellent bass and I guess quite different esp if you have not heard of her. If you can get it on amazon used or whatever, ie cheap, take...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    We are done?:D Nope, not completely. ;) As you should know by now, I am completely on *your* side when it some to the utility of dsp solutions. Also, I get that it is not a treatise on bass correction. Firstly, regarding Ethan, perhaps it was just plain old 'bad luck' he chose to test the...
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    Bugatti Veyron vs Lamborghini Aventador vs Lexus LFA vs McLaren

    nice dress!
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    We'll come back to this (if at the end I still remember!) Yep, already 'familiar' with the two sides of the coin (familiar means NOT an expert). So just to be clear, we are not talking anything but bass here. I get your point, and I get Ethans point. Yes, as shown by your graphs and seen...
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    What lies beneath?

    Ok, so what would be considered a fair final price for a component when based 'solely' on the cost of the parts used? I'd imagine..well actually I don't know. There could be some interesting answers come up. For all I know any small increases in cost has to be exponentially priced to recoup...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    Well, you gotta be sure with terminology I guess. Will that frequency ring as long after eq than before? No, after all it has had it's initial amplitude reduced and hence the time to fall to a given db level (noise floor say) will be correspondingly less. I feel that is a bit loose in...
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    Acoustic Measurements: Understanding Time and Frequency

    thanks amir, and it's good to see some of the little traps exposed and corrected for (noise floor etc) Is there a second part? I ask cause it somehow feels incomplete or that I have not grasped your essential point. Or is the essential point that for the most part room treatment is not...
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    Objectivist or Subjectivist? Give Me a Break

    You talking bout the carver thing? When they found that carvers amp was different in the bass one time? (better, but as mentioned that was not the goal) That he then worsenedhis amp in the bass to the point where they were indistingushable? They conceded that he did achieve his goal, the two...
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    Amplifiers perform audibly differently under different speaker loads?

    Yeah, get all of that of course, but as I said, for the sake of argument let's not only assume we can all hear it, equally those differences are of the veil lifting type (depending on the artist I'd prefer skirt lifting, but the thought of a hairy scottish baritone makes me shudder) so veils it...
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    Amplifiers perform audibly differently under different speaker loads?

    I'm a bit confused. From what I can gather from this and Dons excellent work in the other thread, it seems that in 'some' cases amps can sound different when driving different speakers. Let's for now assume those simulated (?..not measured?) FR differences are audible to all of us. Here is...

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