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愚弄听众100年!音响界的十大谎言!
作者：Peter Aczel (CK编译)
引用林肯(Abraham Lincoln，美国第16任总统)的名言：你可能在某些时候愚弄了一些人，但不可能永远地愚弄所有人！ 这句话似乎用于Hi-End音响十分适合。
我真的很怀疑，现在的人似乎比我年轻时代的人更好欺骗。我们不会往我们的鞋子里放磁铁。Police也不会用通灵术来寻找失踪的人。自希特勒之后不再有国家元首聘用占星家。我们绝大部分人都毫无保留地相信科学。当Hi-Fi的时代来临之际，Paul Klipsch，Linclon Walsh, Stew Hegeman等等工程师是我们的音响资讯的来源。那些不知道e的x次积分为何物的无知怪异的评论家依旧活在黑暗的未来。在现有的知识图谱里，今天的音响科学比起最初的年代，明显进步多了。在时代的这端有不少精明的从业者却远比奠基者出类拔萃。然而在黑暗的那端，一个无知迷信和欺诈的时代却掌握了统治权。为何和如何会这样，已经在我们以前出版的文章中有完全的阐述。现在我们就重点说说那些容易使人掉进陷阱的谎言。
早期音响科学《音响界的十大谎言》目录 (点击直接进入该页)
http://publish.it168.com/2009/0604/20090604025801.shtml
http://www.theaudiocritic.com/ba ... dio_Critic_26_r.pdf
1. 关于线材的谎言
逻辑上不应以此谎言来作为开头，因为线材属于配件，不是主要的音响部件。不过这却是最巨大、最卑鄙、最令人气愤、最侮辱人智慧的谎言，而且还是发烧领域中最骗钱的谎言。所以我必须把这个放在最前面来说。
音响线材 这个谎言就是：高价喇叭线和信号线比标准或一般的线材有更好的声音。这个谎言已经在阳光下被诚实的权威人士一次又一次地戳穿、耻笑和驳倒。但许多无辜者却无从分辨。
高级音频线 最简单的事实就是：阻抗(R)、感抗(L)和容抗(C)这三个线材的参数，是唯一能够影响在声波频率范围内的性能的参数。信号根本不知道自己是被天价线材还是被便宜线材传送着。当然，你还要为一个做工良好的插头、屏蔽处理和绝缘处理等等付出一些代价，以保证线材能够可靠和稳定工作。还有就是你要注意线材不宜过长，避免阻抗过大，信号衰减过多。然而，在基本的导电性能中，一对优质的衣架刮掉两端拉直后，一点也不比价值2000美元的神奇线材差。18美分一尺的 16号电灯线也是如此。天价线材是电子消费品中的一个最大的骗局。看到几乎所有的音响出版物都胆怯地向线材商投降，真的令人感到沮丧。
天价音频线 一家名叫梨子（Pear Cable）的发烧音频企业推出了名叫Anjou的顶级音箱线，12英尺（约3.5米）要价7250美元，即使是超级发烧友对这样的价格也要吓一跳。
James Randi（上图左）之前是一位著名魔术师，现在则专门揭露各种伪科学或灵异事件、超能力人物，99年国内的司马南悬赏特异功能人士就是同他的基金会合作。这次，他再次悬赏，称有人能够在盲测中证明这款天价音频线能够带来比普通“怪兽线”（虽然我们认为怪兽线已经够昂贵了）更好的音质，就能够拿走100万美元。
有消息指出，梨子公司已经接受了这次挑战，参加测试的人员将是一位发烧音响杂志写手Michael Fremer。Pear Cable公司CEO Adam Blake（上图右）表示，是这位Michael Fremer首先联系接受挑战，如果拿到悬赏获益的也是他。但是，最终结果如何呢？我只能告诉大家，这个挑战无疾而终，报道仅仅到此为止。有点虎头蛇尾吧，而针对于盲测的问题，之后几点中我们会继续为大家介绍这个更离谱的骗局。
http://www.theaudiocritic.com/ba ... dio_Critic_26_r.pdf
The Ten Biggest Lies in Audio
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By PETER ACZEL, Editor
ISSUE NO. 26 • FALL 2000 THE AUDIO CRITIC
The punch line of Lincoln’s famous bon mot, that you cannot fool all the people all of the time, appears to be just barely applicable to high-end audio. What follows here is an attempt to make it stick.
I strongly suspect that people are more gullible today than they were in my younger years. Back then we didn’t put magnets in our shoes, the police didn’t use psychics to search for missing persons, and no head of state since Hitler had consulted astrologers. Most of us believed in science without any reservations. When the hi-fi era dawned, engineers like Paul Klipsch, Lincoln Walsh, Stew Hegeman, Dave Hafler, Ed Villchur, and C. G. McProud were our fountainhead of audio information. The untutored tweako/weirdo pundits who don’t know the integral of e^x were still in the benighted future.
Don’t misunderstand me. In terms of the existing spectrum of knowledge, the audio scene today is clearly ahead of the early years; at one end of the spectrum there are brilliant practitioners who far outshine the founding fathers.
At the dark end of that spectrum, however, a new age of ignorance, superstition, and dishonesty holds sway. Why and how that came about has been amply covered in past issues of this publication; here I shall focus on the rogues’ gallery of currently proffered mendacities to snare the credulous.
1. The Cable Lie
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Logically this is not the lie to start with because cables are accessories, not primary audio components. But it is the hugest, dirtiest, most cynical, most intelligence-insulting and, above all, most fraudulently profitable lie in audio, and therefore must go to the head of the list. The lie is that high-priced speaker cables and interconnects sound better than the standard, run-of-the-mill (say, Radio Shack) ones. It is a lie that has been exposed, shamed, and refuted over and over again by every genuine authority under the sun, but the tweako audio cultists hate authority and the innocents can’t distinguish it
from self-serving charlatanry.
The simple truth is that resistance, inductance, and capacitance (R, L, and C) are the only cable parameters that affect performance in the range below
radio frequencies. The signal has no idea whether it is being transmitted through cheap or expensive RLC. Yes, you have to pay a little more than rock
bottom for decent plugs, shielding, insulation, etc., to avoid reliability problems, and you have to pay attention to resistance in longer connections. In
basic electrical performance, however, a nice pair of straightened-out wire coat hangers with the ends scraped is not a whit inferior to a $2000 gee-whiz
miracle cable. Nor is 16-gauge lamp cord at 18¢ a foot. Ultrahigh-priced cables are the biggest scam in consumer electronics, and the cowardly surrender of nearly all audio publications to the pressures of the cable marketers is truly depressing to behold. (For an in-depth examination of fact and fiction in speaker cables and audio interconnects, see Issues No. 16 and No. 17.)
http://www.theaudiocritic.com/ba ... dio_Critic_26_r.pdf
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