![]() ![]() ![]() I was in the consumer electronics/musical instrument business for well over 40 years, with extended stays at companies such as Panasonic, Bose, Boston Acoustics, Atlantic Technology, Zildjian (the number one cymbal maker in the world), and inMusic (parent company to 17 professional music brands like Alesis keyboards, electronic drums and monitor speakers, Akai Professional keyboards, Alto Professional concert loudspeakers, and several others). Which measurements correlate most closely to the listening experience? Is phase really audible? Can we detect low levels of harmonic distortion and is it objectionable? What’s more important to a speaker’s sound-first arrival on-axis or total radiated far-field power response? What subwoofer crossover frequency range is the most critical for achieving a seamless sonic blend with the rest of the system? There are all kinds of questions like these and countless expert opinions, some supported by objective measurements and some totally subjective. There have been a lot of articles and studies on the subject of psychoacoustics and the relative audibility of various acoustic phenomena and artifacts.
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