Speaker and Headphone Measurements Mash-Up - Misinformation | What Matters | Active vs. Passive | Listening

This week, SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast host Jorden Guth is joined by SoundStage! founder Doug Schneider and former SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast cohost Brent Butterworth to discuss the what, how, and why of speaker and headphone measurements. What measurements correlate with listening impressions? How do active and wireless products complicate measurements? And what’s the right balance of listening versus measuring when it comes to fully evaluating a product.

Sources:

"Is the miniDSP EARS the Death of Headphone Measurement? Or its Savior?" by Brent Butterworth: https://www.soundstagesolo.com/index.php/features/152-is-minidsp-ears-the-death-of-headphone-measurement-or-its-savior

SoundStage! Network speaker-measurements resource URL: www.SpeakerMeasurements.com 

Sean Olive on Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car": https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7084958885526065153/

Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:20 What we measure with transducers and why
00:25:09 Musical interlude: "You Don't Really Exist" by Nim Sadot
00:26:40 When measurements go wrong and why bass always wins
01:04:01 Brent on the music that moves him