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In Reply to: RE: Ultrasonics? posted by Kingshead on October 12, 2017 at 02:43:19:
> > would trust just about anything JH said over the ad biased reviews regularly printed in Stereophile < <
I would disagree with you on that point. The problem with Julian Hirsch (and I met the man in person) was that he truly believed that everything about audio could be measured with the test equipment of the day. Since everything except loudspeakers measured essentially perfectly, he came to the unwarranted conclusion that the only thing that mattered any more were loudspeakers.
There he is, listening to his perfect source, through his perfect electronics, only to have the sound be damaged by the imperfect loudspeakers. The irony is that he ended up using the tools developed by one of the all-time true audio geniuses ever - Richard C. Heyser, professor at CalTech who invented Time Domain Spectroscopy and the ability to create a "waterfall" plot of a loudspeaker.
Heyser was about 10,000x smarter than Julian Hirsch and he was trying to figure out ways to measure things that clearly sounded different, even though conventional measurements showed them to be identical. Heyser was successful in creating an instrument that could measure previously unmeasurable differences in speakers, but to date nobody has been successful at measuring the difference between different sounding amplifiers or wires or many other things that trained listeners can hear.
If you have not trained your listening skills to hear the difference, then you should be happy, as you will save yourself a lot of money. It is not cheap nor easy to build electronic equipment that truly lets music's full emotional power connect to the listener.
Stereophile's reviews may be biased, but they are not biased by advertisers. That is not true for the other major print magazine that covers high-performance audio equipment, as they routinely only review equipment provided by advertisers, with the exception of one or two of their reviewers who are either independently wealthy and buy things to review or are away from the center of corruption and review things about which they have preconceptions and review specific products to confirm their own biases.
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