Well, specifically in answer of Analog Scott....
Just about the entire audio equipment industry better start listening to Analog Scott now. They keep touting out their specs of less than 1% distortion and flat frequency response and wide bandwidth and all that stuff, and here we find, that they should be designing each component with a variant of distortions that are user adjustable.
This in no way makes sense. Obviously, those of you that are trying to correct for inaccurate room responses are on the wrong path too, and lets not even talk about the speaker designers who have no clue about your room and are attempting to design to their "reference idea of radiation patterns and what not", they need to lighten up and just let things fall where they may, perhaps put out twenty versions of each speaker each with its own weird and skewed FR and radiation pattern graphs so those at WBF can pick the right one for them.
Oh, and you think you might just use the common sense way of changing your system to sound the way you want, maybe using a parametric equalizer, well, no, because it itself, has built in distortions in that it does not actually show what the band range is on the slider, they are unlabeled, you just move them around until you like the sound.
I am all for adjusting your system the way you want, and we know the final step is the speaker room interface and tuning to either a standard of flatness or slope or whatever, but the idea that individual components in the chain should not be as accurate as possible to start with, well, the audio industry has got it wrong all this time per Analog Scott.
He is confused with a signal chains job of replicating the recording accurately and preference by distorting the signal chain to his preference.
Just about the entire audio equipment industry better start listening to Analog Scott now. They keep touting out their specs of less than 1% distortion and flat frequency response and wide bandwidth and all that stuff, and here we find, that they should be designing each component with a variant of distortions that are user adjustable.
This in no way makes sense. Obviously, those of you that are trying to correct for inaccurate room responses are on the wrong path too, and lets not even talk about the speaker designers who have no clue about your room and are attempting to design to their "reference idea of radiation patterns and what not", they need to lighten up and just let things fall where they may, perhaps put out twenty versions of each speaker each with its own weird and skewed FR and radiation pattern graphs so those at WBF can pick the right one for them.
Oh, and you think you might just use the common sense way of changing your system to sound the way you want, maybe using a parametric equalizer, well, no, because it itself, has built in distortions in that it does not actually show what the band range is on the slider, they are unlabeled, you just move them around until you like the sound.
I am all for adjusting your system the way you want, and we know the final step is the speaker room interface and tuning to either a standard of flatness or slope or whatever, but the idea that individual components in the chain should not be as accurate as possible to start with, well, the audio industry has got it wrong all this time per Analog Scott.
He is confused with a signal chains job of replicating the recording accurately and preference by distorting the signal chain to his preference.