You are probably aware that not many people share your interest.
Yes I know. I didn't want to say, but you asked for it! But this thread is not about our personal preferences.
You are probably aware that not many people share your interest.
Hi,
I would be happy to donate 100$.
I hope that you could measure speakers made in EU also, not only US.
At a mass-market 200 USD/EUR price point, I doubt many tested speakers would be made in either the US or the EU.
Mexico, China, Vietnam, etc, would be more likely.
The challenge in doing so now is that the gear is the bottleneck. I can't even fund the gear that I need for testing let alone expect someone else to buy a $50K speaker tester, just to write free reviews.
It is. I have them and the early ABR's in my loudspeakers. Expensive but decent.Hi Shadrach is that the Volt B2500 in your photo? I recently built a subwoofer with it... Anyway i think the meaning of this is not about saving the audiophiles but the rare oportunity of having free access to speaker measurements from a state of the art measurement rig.The data can be useful when buying like the dacs measure in this forum.
For your personal testing, you can choose any method. For posting on a forum with so much traffic, it better be known gear and allow for replication of test results by manufacturer and others. Otherwise, the test results won't be accepted by some, there will shouting in the hallways, etc.Do one need an AP analyzer to perform proper pre-selection tests?
How far can one go with a good software, a good ADC/DAC (like a RMI ADi-2 FS. Not even the Pro) and, maybe, an auto-ranger?
What would Microsoft do before deciding on such a venture?
We have discussed all of this in the parallel thread. The research leading to preference of consumers to speakers relies on anechoic chamber testing. The chamber costs a few million dollars. Renting room in one will cost more than this tester after a few tries.As for speakers test:
Do one actually need 50k of gear to measure loudspeakers?
Is what you need not just a robotized arm, able to hold a 300g microphone?
How accurate does the position have to be?
That's the same logic. You may purchase the 'real thing'. And maybe we can find a way to mimic it for a lower price (and footprint) for more basic 'pre-selection' tests.
Nothing about this effort is about high-end speakers. My goal is to sift through hundreds of budget and mid-priced speakers to see which ones are worth buying. RIght now, with everything I know, I can't give an ounce of advice about any random speaker out there. There is just no information to say anything reliable. Joe blogger says this speaker is good. Someone says another speaker is good. Where do you guys go with that?
I can answer this. We all have two hobbies, not one. One is audio, the other is talking about audio. We realize the former, but not the later.Ultimately, it boils down to why people come here... In that respect, I can only speak for myself and I know I come here mostly to read the pearls of wisdom distilled by the dozen or so incredibly competent people who post here.
How did $100 become the norm for what I plan to test? I said budget to mid-range. I plan to test speakers up to low thousands of dollars.- a $100 DAC can measure as well or even better than a $30000 one, ready to use/implement chipsets and algorithms guarantee that. A $100 speaker will never match bigger speakers, physics guarantee that. We won't ever get something like the KTB measures as well as the DCS in the speaker world.
So don't judge what I do based on what appears on the surface. We are here because there is fresh content and a mystery to resolve with every audio product tested. It is entertainment with information value. It isn't satisfying a need above and beyond that for many.
Recently Z recommended a speaker. People rushed to buy out the stock on Amazon. Aren't you least bit curious if it actually performs well based on objective data? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. I know I am curious to know but have no means to get there right now.
This is why our traffic is 10X of what it was when were just a forum.