Placebos don’t improve sound. Only one’s opinion of it.

Placebo devices cannot be measured as objectively effective or not. They rely on presentation to work the subject’s bias, they don’t create any measurable effect.

“I knew Steve Eddy. Steve Eddy was a friend of mine. You’re no Steve Eddy.”

To me the difference is phase cancellation.

No it doesn’t matter what music you are listening to. You seem to think electronic music is like test tones and it isn’t. It’s just like music with all the same reverb and creative use of phase shifts that make these small insignificant things completely inaudible. These aren’t “bad examples”...

In commercially recorded music, phase is generally all over the place. When you play it through speakers in a room, it gets even more scrambled. You don’t want phase cancellation, but that requires a perfect 180, which is pretty easy to avoid. I think you’re assuming that phase deviation is...

The score is an average of all trials, you don’t just do it until you stumble across doing it right. Record all your tests and do a bunch.

I don’t have an anechoic chamber, so there’s no way to isolate phase effects to the speakers. I can only compare the fronts to the rears, and the main difference I can discern is that the KEFs have very wide dispersion.

Charles Manson?

I splurged for a new m4 iPad and I’m having fun setting it all up. They sure have perfected Bluetooth switching. I pause playing on my MacBook and start playing on the iPad and it switches instantly without needing help from me. In the old days, I had to manually disconnect from one to get it to...

I have KEM speakers with a radial design that supposedly improves phase. I can’t discern any difference in that regard as opposed to my regular box speakers.

Not having perfect phase in a speaker system isn’t unfortunate. It’s part of the dimensionality that makes speakers superior to headphones.

As long as it’s in relative phase, it’s fine.

Just to remind people about the purpose of this thread… It is a place for our community. It isn’t a place for arguments, it isn’t even a place to talk about science. Other threads cover that. This is where we hang out as friends and comrades. If you don’t feel like you are a friend or comrade to...

I think it should be self evident that upscaling doesn’t add any more information. Take a 64k mp3 with artifacting and upscale it to 24/96… it still sounds like a 64k mp3.

This crap has been dragged into the pub now.

Don’t flush it!

Go fish.

The original post was answered quickly. Since then, it’s been back and forth for no reason and explanations that have already been asked and answered. I have no objection to my posts trying to draw attention to the futility of this thread being deleted along with the nonsense I was replying to...

It served its purpose

This thread should be deleted too

Deleted is a good thing. These threads were dumb.

Go away.

What killer samples at 256 AAC? Are you using VBR?

That back and forth is a brain drain to read. You guys should get a room.