“Take Duane Allman’s Name Outta Your Mouth”

We’re on Patreon now! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases):   📚 Budget Travel For Dummies by Geoffrey Morrison: https://amzn.to/3uiIPlp   📚Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms by Floyd Toole: https://amzn.to/3ZlTLtE   📚Loudspeaker Design Cookbook 8th Edition: Volume 1 by Vance Dickason: https://amzn.to/42pdwk0   This week’s episode starts with a question from our first Patron: Why are headphone measurements the way they are? From there, we dig into a Dolby Atmos kerfuffle from Stereophile, and opine about whether the death of music journalism is a plague or merely a symptom of a larger problem.   Further Reading:  “Why do so many neutral headphones have a big drop in their frequency curve between 9k and 10k hz?" by u/Jirb30: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/19d6tfv/why_do_so_many_neutral_headphones_have_a_big_drop/?share_id=iWE7oKjr0pL4tsxKQqJTb “Many headphones have this dip around 9 kHz in frequency response graph. Can you help me understand what causes this dip and what the impact it has on sound quality?" by u/GreenNerve: https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/xq0te9/many_headphones_have_this_dip_around_9_khz_in/ “Our Passive Soundstage Score And Tests” by Sam Vafaei and Marc Henney: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/sound-quality/passive-soundstage#test_2184 “Dolby Atmos: a Bleak Shadow?” by Jim Austin: https://www.stereophile.com/content/dolby-atmos-bleak-shadow “Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?" by Ted Gioia: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-is-music-journalism-collapsing