Enkay78
Well-Known Member
Well we can clarify few things:Pretty dogmatic and pompous, especially the brainwashed part.
You own the Kali speakers which possibly attracted you as they publish detailed specs and measurements which you porbably correlated to you listening justification aswell before buying.
Let me give an example of Dynaudio, a company in existence for almost 50 years.
They cater to
1. Home audio customers where the 95% so-termed brainwashed customers fall,
2. Studio professionals
3. Car audio (both OEM and open market)
4. Turnkey projects
If you look at their Home Audio offerings, you will find basic specs like 99% of all leading brands do, but no measurements
If you look at their studio series, you will find detalied specs and measurements
The same goes with open market car audio series as lots of customization take place due to vagaries of car environments
You will find this essential feature with almost all speaker manufacturers who build for both studio professionals and home listeners.
The intention of not providing measurements is not with an intent to cheat or influence. It is simply because it does not serve any purpose to a large percentage of home audio customers.
It is altogether a different scenario with studio professionals as these line of speakers are used for music reproduction is a professional environment like a treated space like a studio.
1. Most people on this earth does not care about hi-fidelity because they are limited to their exposure to hi-fidelity. Factors are economic, logistics, manufacturing, and perhaps the priority of hi-fidelity being lower than what’s happening in their life. Fo such population a simple radio/mobile/Bluetooth speakers are more than enough. For such population, the interest lies in the music sans quality of reproduction.
However given the opportunities and resources, this same populace do have an inclination to certain sonic qualities. And these have been well defined by audio research.
2. From amongst the billions of world population, there is a segment which can comprise about 0.1 to 1% (it’s a rough guesstimate from my side) who has the resources, finances and interest for music and hi-fidelity. These cohort, in addition to having acquired taste, have been exposed to better quality sonic reproduction….either as part of their lifestyle or exposure to audio experiences.(maybe commensurate with their class). For this populace the priorities over audio quality may be as much par with living. And audiophiles are the niche complement of this populace.
3. The hypotheses that all class of people does incline to certain sound from speakers has been researched. So given an exposure and means to such reproduction 100% of people of this planet will prefer it……including all the wives of the husbands in this world. Heck some animals are proven to prefer certain classical music.
4. Consumer audio electronics manufacturers have a priority over scale. However these manufacturers do adopt a modicum of measurements needed for the electronics involved. And a certain acceptable level of audio quality. So seemingly measurements and specs may be overridden by features sought out by the major populace. And it involves economics of scale.
5. The niche market of hi-fidelity do bank on measurements. That’s the rationale of the evolution of hand spun turntable to the current state of art amplification and audio reproduction.
Gen X and future generations are being exposed to superior audio reproduction treats at the level of their smartphone and headphones. If one can observe the industry , Dolby is being pushed, the drivers of earphones are much higher quality now. The demand for better quality is being pushed from both sides of consumer and manufacturers/vendors. USA and EU can be mature markets……but look at the evolution of audio in China and Asia.
In future, again let me reiterate, measurements will play a big role. Have some faith in the younger generations. The obsession may not be at audiophile level…..but hey look at the Sony headphone and Bose series and yes the NCs.