{"id":306243,"date":"2021-07-23T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-is-the-most-important-book-a-speaker-loving-audiophile-can-read\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T03:00:36","slug":"this-is-the-most-important-book-a-speaker-loving-audiophile-can-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-is-the-most-important-book-a-speaker-loving-audiophile-can-read\/","title":{"rendered":"#This is the most important book a speaker-loving audiophile can read"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This is the most important book a speaker-loving audiophile can read<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

I reviewa lot ofspeakers here at TNW, and \u2014 if may toot my own horn for a bit \u2014 I do so in a more technical manner than you\u2019ll find in most other mainstream tech publications. My reviews are full of measurements and graphs that I genuinely believe provide powerful insights into not only a speaker\u2019s technical prowess, but also how likely you are to actually enjoy<\/em> that speaker in your own home.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a perfect system, but I nonetheless believe in the power of this data to such an extent that I\u2019d be totally happ<\/a>y if readers skim my actual listening impressions \u2014 collected over weeks or months of careful critical listening \u2014 just to get to the measurements and my interpretation thereof. After all, this data tends to align with what I\u2019ve heard anyway, despite the fact that I write my listening impressions before putting a speaker through the test bench.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always this way. I started off writing subjective-only reviews like everyone else, and there\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with that so long as you do your best to check your biases. But thanks to one book, I realized I could provide much more value to my readers to help them make smarter purchasing decisions. Because science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms<\/em><\/a>, written by renowned psychoacoustics researcher Floyd Toole, is the most important thing I\u2019ve read since I first got \u2018serious\u2019 about audio over a decade ago. It is one part an educational science textbook, another part a manifesto to get people to pay attention to psychoacoustics. It is one part a reference manual for speaker nerds with hundreds of research citations for further exploration, and another part a memoir of this particular researcher\u2019s experience over decades of science-making.<\/p>\n

It all boils down to one central idea: what we hear when listening to speakers in a room can be substantially explained \u2014 and predicted \u2014 with science. If you enjoy listening to music through a good sound system and you believe in science, then this book is the best way to get caught up with some of the most important ideas in the field.<\/p>\n

It changed my view of what it means for a speaker to be \u2018hi-fi\u2018 \u2014 you can get a good preview in this talk of Dr. Toole\u2019s:<\/p>\n