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Neil McCauley
29-10-2015, 12:14
Howard Popeck: Hello Jo. At short notice, thank you for taking the time …

Jo Lang: I have a bit of time right now so I thought I would respond to your kind invitation.

You are as I understand it, that rare individual who is an audiophile maker blogger; am I correct?

Yes, I have written quite a lot about HiFi on the internet being involved in several blogs. However, I think my views on HiFi are often a bit too radical and controversial and I am running into huge arguments with HiFi enthusiasts. Especially the ones who trust in all the publications and measurements but not their ears!

So bottom line is ….?

I know what I hear and I see what I measure but this doesn’t always match! So I trust my ears and not the equipment. I have been dealing with speakers and audio gear for decades and I know how easy it is to make wrong measurements ….. or to interpret them wrongly. However I never made a bad judgment on what I heard.

How do you know this?

I have been ....

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