er baseret på almindelig videnskab der kan falcificeres og efterprøves. Desuden mener han at "burn in" er en skrøne der dækker over at noget ikke er godt konstrueret.
Speaking as a designer, it is 100% my responsibility - my duty, my job to design you a speaker that you will enjoy from the moment you open the carton. It is not your responsibility to have to endure some half-baked, ill-conceived excuse for a quality speaker for hundreds of hours until you are so ground down by the experience that you can't tell right from wrong. Sorry, but that's the reality - poor design covered-up by marketing BS: that's the top and bottom of the 'burn-in' fantasy! |
My plea is that real science is not just about numeracy (which puts it far beyond the ordinary man i.e. me) but about the discipline of making reliable, repeatable observations isolated from emotions. Anyone can train themselves to do that. Elements of the audio industry have spun the yarn that hi-fi products are above and beyond scientific reason. This has had unforgivable consequences: the alienation of the public (especially women) towards hi-fi and high-end audio which they associate with geeky gurus, and the decline in the importance of quality audio to society generally as we've slid into the MP3 culture. More logic. More careful observations. More honesty; that has to be our future. |
Alan A. Shaw
Designer & Managing Director
Harbeth Audio Ltd