Posts by JMS

According to Harman's blind testing, #1 most revealing track is pink noise, and close behind is Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car".

Another question for Tonmeister and Meatus along the lines of "virtual" subjective testing:   Has there been thought given to measuring with a dummy head the response from loudspeaker playback, as a reference for desired...

Finally got a chance to read the paper online at http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=16446  This paper is a good step towards more subjective testing for headphones, which I think is really the right way to do science in...

Tonmeister2008, will you be making a blog post about this work? I'm eagerly waiting to read the paper but I'm not sure when AES will have it online. Your blog posts have been great at making the science accessible to more people, both...

To clarify, it's currently assumed that an equalization curve (IEC 60268-7 or others) should be applied to a headphone's frequency response before interpretation. Innerfidelity.com's measurements are an example. This paper suggests...

The unexpected part is made explicit in the next sentence: "...the IEC 60268-7 headphone calibration is not optimal for achieving the best sound quality."

An interesting paper from Sean Olive of Harman (AKG) is set to be published at AES2012 in a couple weeks that should be of great interest to folks in this...

Quote: Originally Posted by EliasGwinn  Quote: Originally Posted by JMS    I have Squeezebox Touch -> Benchmark DAC1, and I'm hearing a click/pop at my...

  I have Squeezebox Touch -> Benchmark DAC1, and I'm hearing a click/pop at my speakers/headphones about 30% of the time when I pause/unpause or manually skip to the next track. I don't know if it damages my speakers but...

Quote: Originally Posted by EliasGwinn I can only guess, as I've never heard of this before. My guess is that it has something to do with the differences between the designs of the RCA and XLR input stages in the...