A cynic might claim it may have something to do with who is a sponsor and who is not a sponsor. But I would never make such a nasty suggestion. AVTech Media Americas cares about headphone enthusiasts. They want to help headphone enthusiasts get the best-valued headphones that are currently...

Well, apparently, there are many sponsors assuming the price is low enough. The following are the site ranks of some of AVTech Media Americas’ websites according to Alexa. InnerFidelity: 145 027 AnalogPlanet: 160 559 AudioStream: 325 736 Home Cinema Choice: 359 915 Hi-Fi News: 616 237 Hi-Fi...

Because InnerFidelity is no longer about headphone enthusiasts. InnerFidelity is now all about their sponsors. So the worst individual to hire would be a headphone enthusiast. Much better, therefore, would be someone with absolutely no experience or knowledge of headphone measurements. Even...

Yes, InnerFidelity is now merely press releases and ads thinly disguised as “reviews.” It is as if AVTech Media Americas asked InnerFidelity’s readers not what they want, but what they do not want.

Maybe Tyll did not want to do what Rafe is doing and therefore decided on early retirement?

I do not think it is negligence, and I think AVTech Media Americas has the perfect successor to Tyll. InnerFidelity is in it for the money. Let us not kid ourselves. Almost all headphone sites are in it for the money. But how should headphone sites make their money? Should they try to...

Quote: One could subjectively tell readers one’s impression of the sound produced by using the equalizer and possibly other signal processing that is available.  And if there are problems like hum or hiss using certain headphones, this should obviously be mentioned.  But please do not try...

Quote: Subjectivism has its place in reviews of audio devices.  All we are saying is to not go overboard.  For MP3 players, for example, subjectivism has its role to play in describing the ease of use, the firmware’s stability, the visual appearance of the device, the legibility of the...

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Quote: There is a widely-agreed-upon testing methodology available for testing whether there is an audible difference between two audio devices.  It requires human ears and allows for hearing any differences in bass volume, speed, detail, etc.  Head-Fi has banned all discussions of this...

Quote: What are controlled subjective reviews?  Please explain in detail the testing methodology.

Quote: This, unfortunately, is the result of all the subjectivist audiophile magazines and websites.  When one only cares about money and have no ethical standards, snake-oil sellers flourish.  It is all about subjectivism taken to extremes.   Quote:

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Quote:   Definitely not as simple as that.  Let us say you paid $10 000 US for a brick to put on top of your power amplifier to improve the sound quality.  And the improvement is incredible!  The rhythm and pace is better.   The soundstage is expanded.  It is more musical.  It is...

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Quote: Thank you for the high-quality post.  Will you, on your blog, explain to readers the correlations between various technical measurements and sound quality?  For example, when listening to typical music, what is the minimum amount of channel separation required for a neutral sound? ...

Quote:   What kind of objective information are you looking for and how do you define best?  If it is just sound quality, a high-quality MP3 player from vendors like Apple, SanDisk, Sony, Cowon, Archos, Microsoft, Samsung, Creative, etc., will probably be good enough.  If, however...

Quote: Well, the technique used to evaluate the quality of codecs has been used to evaluate the sound quality of MP3 players.  A good understanding of why this technique is used for evaluating the quality of codecs answers the original poster’s question.  If we regard MP3 players as...

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Quote: FLAC should sound the same as uncompressed WAV.

Quote: dfkt’s thread was moved to the Sound Science forum and was locked only much later.  Unless a moderator or administrator posts in this thread giving me the OK, I am definitely not going to give the links.  But since there is a record of every one of my posts in these forums...

Quote: It does not have to take a lot of time.  For night-and-day differences, it should require only a few seconds for each trial.  For example, with LAME 3.98.4 at –V9, I would not be surprised if you got five out of five in less than two minutes.

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