As per last week's explorations using AI-assisted research into Stereophile's measurements, we can see that there's a lot of data out there gathered over the decades. While we can look at measurements individually, I think it's more fun to combine the data together to find trends that might be hard to spot.I suggested that one interesting area of exploration is to examine audiophile loudspeaker

Over the years, I've talked about using AI technology to help us understand the audiophile world (just a tiny piece among many, many other things to understand of course 😏). In early 2023 I discussed using LLMs like ChatGPT to generate content including the ease of making "subjective" text such as for product reviews. By 2024, we discussed the multi-modality of AI technologies; the ability

For this post, let's spend some time looking and listening to the above device. It's the Rotel RSS-900 "speaker selector", MSRP around $200. This has been on the market for awhile now, I think released back around 2004. Here's the manual for it. I was graciously lent this box by a friend to check out as this is not a kind of product I've published on in this blog.As you know, these days,