B&K5128 seens great as a new standard. It will be some time before it gets an affordable clone option. Good thing is, proper standards with diffuse field measurements will be quite happily comparable amongst each other. Not fully, but enough that it's more than useable. Which is good considering the absolutely vast library existing on gras.
@Ardacer pretty much why I think preference based targets are a slippery slope: way too easy to get lost in dozens or hundreds of assorted things (look at how wild the IEM space is!).
@purr1n if integrity stands for anything then OBVIOUSLY The work of rewriting their opinions on gear based on how closely adherent to THE CORRECT target is well worth it. Let's not forget oratory1990 et al's EQ profiles
I have to admit, I really like what Resolve and team are doing (or goimg to be doing) with their compensated df targets with zones instead of just a line.
I'd very much like to see them do more than just fr, I mean, you already have the tools... why not add thd, imd, csd measurements? It costs you nothing to add them too.
@Ardacer They don't believe that any of that matters. It's why, as much as I have no shortage of respect for the work Crinacle and Resolve and all the others have done insofar as building a library of useful FR traces go, that's the extent of the respect I have. Maybe we're all wrong and getting /better/ FR traces will render CSDs, burst decays, impulse responses all useless after all. Who knows.
I highly doubt that. Fr+phase/ir is enough to perfectly model a minimum phase system, and you can extrapolate csd from that, for example, but good luck trying to see those effects which are easily seen on csd/bursts on fr plot. Also, thd/imd being useless is quite the opinion fo have...
@Ardacer to be very fair to folks, I believe that the sentiment is more phrased "distortion doesn't matter so long as it's below a certain level which would render it inaudible". As for CSDs, I have firsthand experience with how they can very easily make up for shortfalls in FR (of which there are many), but again hey maybe dunking thousands of USD into a measurement rig will "fix" my FR woes (shrug).
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