Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is.

12-02-07: Mrtennis
Why not acknowledge that electronics and speakers are flawed?<<

No more so than some reviewers and their reviews.

" No more so than some reviewers and their reviews. "

Exactly!!!

"Dcstep, a audio club recently did and discovered they could not hear any difference between items under test. Interesting comment by them-but what does it say?"

Well Psacanli, maybe there was no difference; however, some will say the test was flawed. I say that doing the test correctly is, indeed, difficult. I'll start another thread where I propose a methodology for repeatable DB testing, using 1-bit 5.6MHz sampling.

Dave

One of the reasons people are concerned about reviews is the impact they have on resale.

Holt ever do any serious recording? When I hear my instruments ( both electric and acoustic Basses ) tracks recordings played back the overall sound is remarkably lifelike. Along with knowledgeable engineering the chain, including the microphones and the speakers, is doing a very good job.

Some recording engineers work with absolutely horrible playback equipment but when you hear the take in a well equipped post production room the original tracks are stunningly life like.

The degradation begins during post production and goes downhill ending with the finished media. Unfortunately, I can't speak of the direct to disk method of recording.

Vic