if you say vegimite brand x is the best, how the hell do we know until we taste it ourselves...or in the case of your experiment, some actual test equipment results...an easy one is THD, no matter what you do, if that number did not come down you just fiddled with your tone control my man.
Tom
Gee, I didn't know you blokes in the rest of the world were into Vegemite, a spreading disease perhaps! Note the capitalisation, there is only one Vegie product, like there is only one Jeep ...
but if you are really doing all this research then put up some facts...
Facts don't mean Schiit! (
apologies to that company ...). What counts is what it sounds like, which is how I got onto this road, after all! But seriously, I'm thinking about doing something meaningful, like getting a decent microphone setup into the room while my system is blasting away, and record what it sounds like, with a bit of commentary from people in the room, to give a sense of loudness scale. Trouble is, that's a recording of the playback of a recording, but at least with headphones(!!) you should get an idea; and at the moment I have lousy recording capability. Is that going to turn any of you lot on??
THD, no matter what you do, if that number did not come down you just fiddled with your tone control my man.
Oh dear, we have just mentioned that bad word! Yes, I believe it is lower, much lower, but only where it counts: as seen by a very accurate mic in front of the speaker cones, while playing musical signals, not sine waves. A very hard thing to set up and meaningfully measure ...
It is intersting your concept of making your less expensice system with all your tweaks into something that can beat a much more costly system as a goal for study and learning and good luck to you there.
There are a lot of folks on this forum with deep knowledge of audio and also, speaking for myself, a pretty good understanding of how limited my hearing abilities are verses hearing stuff 90 db down and all that. Also, given that the recording as you recieve it is nothing like the reality, you start out with plain old stereo (flawed....now to advance the art we need to get away from plain old stereo to start with not tinker about with a flawed system as you seem to think the answer is) that is somehow trying to be like the live event when it can not , in no way, but only simulate it with a great deal of the simulation going on in your brain, thus everyone hears things differently.
Right on the money with the first comment. As regards the second, it is all about recreating the vitality and energy of the live event with sufficient accuracy for the brain to say, "Good enough for me". The people who have experienced this know what it's about, like putting on your best tape playback through a top notch, big headroom system. Basspig comes to mind here, he's got about 25db extra acoustic headroom over me.
Frank