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Receivers can be perceived as sounding warm, cold or sterile for no reason at all. Memes are usually the culprit - one guy pops into an audio salon, the dealer claims this or that receiver sounds 'warm' or 'bright', and then there is a following. More and more people then repeat these terms...

Clearly your speakers are not resolving enough or transparent enough to allow the fine details to shine through your amplifiers. Also, your ears may not be sensitive enough to hear the differences!? Even the wife can hear the differences between amps, upstairs, in the bathroom which is...

Only $3499 or $5499 for adequate reserves of power?

Now if you take a look at this pic, from the GIK site : The panels are on the outside of each speaker. :confused:

Pic of my room currently.

Thanks Glenn, that makes sense re panels and the new design. I thought I might have gotten a 242 instead of a 244 panel. :D The positioning of the left and right panels are confusing. One person is telling me to put them directly behind the speaker, the next person says the panels should be...

Well, what is the alternative? Solipsism? :) I'm not a big fan of dueling perceptions and solipsism isn't a healthy worldview to adopt for various reasons. IME, in order for us to function we need to believe in a reality and preferably one that is real. Our perceptions of reality and reality...

Glenn, I have a (potential) concern about these panels and perhaps you can put my concerns to rest. I ordered a number of panels from you a few years ago, and I ordered recent panels from GIK UK. I ordered 244 panels both from you and from the UK store. Now I have both panels in my lounge. The...

I agree. Words like 'hallucination' have a negative connotation. Frankly its insulting. That's why I prefer to use the words 'audible illusions' ... ; - ) :D

Your post suggests a lack of experience conducting good listening tests. If you compare electronic gear you need to ensure they are volume-matched. A slight volume difference can be interpreted as a quality difference. In order to ensure parity, you have to level match otherwise you are hearing...

Sure, in a sighted evaluation where so few things are controlled that the outcome is practically guaranteed to result in random audible differences, Heck, even comparing the same amplifier to itself can result in audible differences. I see. No controls in place, just a casual apples to oranges...

Makes you wonder ... consider all of the high end audiophile publications, the thousands or tens of thousands of pages of subjective impressions per week or month that would simply cease to exist if proper listening test protocols were used.

Found this video that I thought was very informative as it relates to perception, among other things. It's LONG, but it's worth the time to watch, in my opinion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LN7qUiTpo

I assume the test was sighted? In which case it wasn't much of a "test", if we are using the dictionary definition of the word. :D I've also read from people who claim that Yamaha receivers sound 'brighter' than their NAD receivers. It's gotten to the point now where people just instinctively...

I find it fascinating how some audiophiles are apparently immune to their cognitive biases, some are so convinced that they couldn't possibly be biased under just about any condition, whether it to related to pricing, looks, brand etc. We get those audiophiles who scream from the mountain tops...

Thanks Glenn! I emailed Bryan already and he gave me great advice. My concern is that I don't want to compromise on the performance of my system, and his advice is to keep the panels on the inside of the speakers. Which I could do, but that would mean my TV would be very tiny. :( Because I...

Hi guys, So I got my GIK Acoustic panels (12 in total), I haven't mounted them on the wall so for now they are just standing on the floor. For the front speakers I've been told that the panels should be placed so that they are inside the front speakers, as close together as possible. Now I...

Guys, thanks for pitching in. Enjoying the discussion. I think most of you are aware of my position on sensory perception, but I still find it oddly amusing to hear that our senses are somehow the most reliable tools at hand for discerning minute audible differences, at least according to many...

Damn, I was hoping for a detailed discussion. :( :D

I've heard from many audiophiles that the most accurate and finely tuned measuring devices are our senses.I would like to learn more about this. If an audiophile could explain this to me I would appreciate it.