Your authenticity stands out, amidst a sea of fakeness on UA-cam and the internet in general. People are looking for someone they can trust. I think that counts for something. Much success to you!
Best of luck on your full time venture. I mentioned your channel to my wife yesterday to say that I am learning a few things and working with your advice.
I am surprised that you are only now entering the audio world full time as I thought you were heavily involved in REW development and implementation. Well, the hobby needs someone who can explain acoustics whilst demonstrating visually high level concepts like speaker calibration, time and phase alignment, all sorts of fine-tuning for the various brands: Audyssey, ARC-g, and Dirac to name a few. Good luck Matthew Poes.
Thanks Paul. I wasn’t involved in REW’s development really. I did pay to have some features added and provided John feedback. However the software itself is all John. I did work with AV Nirvana to provide support for the software for a time.
@@PoesAcoustics Matt, I have a feeling that incorporating your earlier work with education is going to enhance what you bring to this work. Once we all grasp that it’s not the processors, the amps, the speakers, or the room; but all of those things working together, only then can we truly maximize our experience. I really am excited to see where your career goes with this.
@@SealedOrPorted thanks Paul. My actual area of study was child development and not the way people think of it. It was and is so hard to explain to people what I do. My wife jokes that my new career is even worse. The simplest example I can give is to use a program people know. Head Start. This is a large national program that costs billions of dollars. We started it in order to provide a very sophisticated and superior preschool education to low income families under the guise that this would help low income children overcome the many barriers they face to success in school later in life. It gives them a jump start and overcomes what they may not be getting elsewhere. We want to know if it works. It makes little sense to just try good ideas and never stop to be sure they are working. Head Start was thus studied in many ways. One way was what is known as an implementation study. Is the HS program being delivered in real communities consistent with what was originally developed? It was studied for effectiveness. This is done the same way medicine is studied. Children are randomized to either Head Start or some other condition. It might have been no preschool or it might have been a standard quality and type of preschool. Children were then followed into grade school and their readiness and achievement was assessed. At least very early in life, it was found to make a difference. Studying how children’s behavior and development is altered from what would have happened in the absence of this intervention is extremely difficult to measure. That is what I do. I am good at measuring these nebulous abstract concepts of development and achievement. Not just educationally. Socially as well. I do actually think that many of the things that made me good at that job also make me good at this job. I have a solid understanding of not only human behavior but also how to understand it. I know how to be skeptical in an appropriate way. It’s easy to reject everything, but good scientists don’t do that. We are skeptical with a purpose. Simply rejecting ideas we don’t favor is not good science. You have to understand how the studies work and what threats to the validity of the measures and the methods exist. Because I was good at learning complex new methods and teaching them to other academics, I learned how to take difficult and complex topics and translate them to a lay audience. Reality is most researchers in my field don’t have my understanding of statistics or methods so they were functionally a lay audience. I use my approach to teaching methods in this field too. I break down complex ideas, try to add analogies and pictures, and I try to find an angle I think folks will relate to and understand. I focus on the aspects I think are important while avoiding the details that are not needed to get the idea. But I really have no idea what my future holds. I do hope it works out. We shall see.
@@PoesAcoustics My wife is an educator and I am aware of the benefits and attributes of programs like Head Start. I feel for the children who miss out as they really start in a hole given what children are asked to do in K and pre-K compared to when I was a child. I figured you for an analyst of sorts as the presentations and talks I watched of you were different from watching professors and engineers. It’s unique and welcome.
Matt i've followed you for a while ever since I saw you speak briefly on some webcast and I have always liked the way you express yourself and the technical precision and science behind what you say ... always helpful and interesting. Okay to be honest, I told my wife "I really like this guy because he explains this stuff exactly like i would!" 🙂 Not that I have your experience, but as you have, I have studied the area of acoustics as a personal passion for many years and so I connect with the learning and sharing aspects. Glad to see you make the move to full time and looking forward to many more insightful videos. Will you be speaking at any shows or conferences in the next year?
I would like to. Ever since my second daughter was born it has become much harder to travel. There are a few shows that I know would have an open opportunity to speak. Others I would likely need to submit a proposal or try to pull strings. I enjoy giving lectures and talks on these topics. I haven’t done so at a public event in over a year. COVID really put a damper on it for a while. My last few invited were for webinar style presentations.
If you work with Denon, Marantz, please tell them to put us Dirac Live ART/BC on their product once Storm is out of the exclusive contract 😅Wish you success in progressing professionally and personally
Good luck, rooting for you! This hobby needs a new, honest, look at itself. I think there is some money to be made while keeping integrity. Sadly so much of the advice is given with some financial interest on the back end. Even some of the more honest online reviewers have been tainted now, it's very hard to find good - product agnostic - advice.
I recommend things I don’t sell if I think it’s the right product for the client. I also prefer products based on performance and not margins. I think the problem for someone like me is that I can’t openly share all of those details, like what the margin is, so a consumer has no idea what my motives are. I also charge for advice and discount back a portion of the consultation if a product is pushed. It means I am made whole for my time regardless. Of course if someone pays for a single consultation engagement and then buys a Trinnov, the profit of that Trinnov far exceeds what I would make on the consultation. On the other hand, a consultation is basically one and done. I have no responsibility after. A Trinnov is an investment in that client. I can’t just abandon them. It’s not just basic service either. It’s a complicated device with a ton of features and options.
@@PoesAcoustics I think it comes down to the moral compass of the dealer/consultant. It's a very competitive business. If you can charge a reasonable premium for better outcomes, the people who know that the outcome will be better will be willing to pay it. Consumer electronic sales isn't generally a get rich program on the end user level, if I were you I'd probably target higher end consumers because at the end of the day there is only one of you. It's not a very scalable business. I've seen some acoustic engineers make their own speakers or treatments to add margin, which maybe isn't a bad idea either but they're basically just subbing it out and you really have to have a name for that (which you are on your way to!). Tough business, I wish you luck. I've found I could make a lot more money buying and selling stuff because the service business is just so people intensive and always caught me at a ceiling of how much time I could dedicate. I think the more you get into this you're going to find a few of the many things you do rake in the most income (80/20 rule), and when you focus on those you'll really optimize your business. I'm excited to see where this takes you, I think you'll do great.
Very cool, congratulations
Your authenticity stands out, amidst a sea of fakeness on UA-cam and the internet in general. People are looking for someone they can trust. I think that counts for something. Much success to you!
That is a really kind comment and I greatly appreciate that.
Best of luck on your full time venture. I mentioned your channel to my wife yesterday to say that I am learning a few things and working with your advice.
Awesome! Thank you!
Mathew pls try to interview REW founder if possible as there isn't much information abt him online
Hah I don’t know if John would be open to that. I could ask.
I am surprised that you are only now entering the audio world full time as I thought you were heavily involved in REW development and implementation. Well, the hobby needs someone who can explain acoustics whilst demonstrating visually high level concepts like speaker calibration, time and phase alignment, all sorts of fine-tuning for the various brands: Audyssey, ARC-g, and Dirac to name a few. Good luck Matthew Poes.
Thanks Paul.
I wasn’t involved in REW’s development really. I did pay to have some features added and provided John feedback. However the software itself is all John. I did work with AV Nirvana to provide support for the software for a time.
@@PoesAcoustics Matt, I have a feeling that incorporating your earlier work with education is going to enhance what you bring to this work. Once we all grasp that it’s not the processors, the amps, the speakers, or the room; but all of those things working together, only then can we truly maximize our experience. I really am excited to see where your career goes with this.
@@SealedOrPorted thanks Paul. My actual area of study was child development and not the way people think of it. It was and is so hard to explain to people what I do. My wife jokes that my new career is even worse. The simplest example I can give is to use a program people know. Head Start. This is a large national program that costs billions of dollars. We started it in order to provide a very sophisticated and superior preschool education to low income families under the guise that this would help low income children overcome the many barriers they face to success in school later in life. It gives them a jump start and overcomes what they may not be getting elsewhere. We want to know if it works. It makes little sense to just try good ideas and never stop to be sure they are working. Head Start was thus studied in many ways. One way was what is known as an implementation study. Is the HS program being delivered in real communities consistent with what was originally developed? It was studied for effectiveness. This is done the same way medicine is studied. Children are randomized to either Head Start or some other condition. It might have been no preschool or it might have been a standard quality and type of preschool. Children were then followed into grade school and their readiness and achievement was assessed. At least very early in life, it was found to make a difference. Studying how children’s behavior and development is altered from what would have happened in the absence of this intervention is extremely difficult to measure. That is what I do. I am good at measuring these nebulous abstract concepts of development and achievement. Not just educationally. Socially as well.
I do actually think that many of the things that made me good at that job also make me good at this job. I have a solid understanding of not only human behavior but also how to understand it. I know how to be skeptical in an appropriate way. It’s easy to reject everything, but good scientists don’t do that. We are skeptical with a purpose. Simply rejecting ideas we don’t favor is not good science. You have to understand how the studies work and what threats to the validity of the measures and the methods exist.
Because I was good at learning complex new methods and teaching them to other academics, I learned how to take difficult and complex topics and translate them to a lay audience. Reality is most researchers in my field don’t have my understanding of statistics or methods so they were functionally a lay audience. I use my approach to teaching methods in this field too. I break down complex ideas, try to add analogies and pictures, and I try to find an angle I think folks will relate to and understand. I focus on the aspects I think are important while avoiding the details that are not needed to get the idea.
But I really have no idea what my future holds. I do hope it works out. We shall see.
@@PoesAcoustics My wife is an educator and I am aware of the benefits and attributes of programs like Head Start. I feel for the children who miss out as they really start in a hole given what children are asked to do in K and pre-K compared to when I was a child.
I figured you for an analyst of sorts as the presentations and talks I watched of you were different from watching professors and engineers. It’s unique and welcome.
Matt i've followed you for a while ever since I saw you speak briefly on some webcast and I have always liked the way you express yourself and the technical precision and science behind what you say ... always helpful and interesting. Okay to be honest, I told my wife "I really like this guy because he explains this stuff exactly like i would!" 🙂 Not that I have your experience, but as you have, I have studied the area of acoustics as a personal passion for many years and so I connect with the learning and sharing aspects. Glad to see you make the move to full time and looking forward to many more insightful videos. Will you be speaking at any shows or conferences in the next year?
I would like to. Ever since my second daughter was born it has become much harder to travel. There are a few shows that I know would have an open opportunity to speak. Others I would likely need to submit a proposal or try to pull strings. I enjoy giving lectures and talks on these topics. I haven’t done so at a public event in over a year. COVID really put a damper on it for a while. My last few invited were for webinar style presentations.
Also thank you very much for the kind complement.
The question isn't who is Matthew Poes. The real question is who ISN'T Matthew Poes!
I am not an ant eater
@@PoesAcoustics I see no evidence to support that assertion.
If you work with Denon, Marantz, please tell them to put us Dirac Live ART/BC on their product once Storm is out of the exclusive contract 😅Wish you success in progressing professionally and personally
It has been shared. I and others raised it at our meeting last month. I don’t think they are opposed.
good luck
thank you
Good luck, rooting for you! This hobby needs a new, honest, look at itself. I think there is some money to be made while keeping integrity. Sadly so much of the advice is given with some financial interest on the back end. Even some of the more honest online reviewers have been tainted now, it's very hard to find good - product agnostic - advice.
I recommend things I don’t sell if I think it’s the right product for the client. I also prefer products based on performance and not margins.
I think the problem for someone like me is that I can’t openly share all of those details, like what the margin is, so a consumer has no idea what my motives are. I also charge for advice and discount back a portion of the consultation if a product is pushed. It means I am made whole for my time regardless. Of course if someone pays for a single consultation engagement and then buys a Trinnov, the profit of that Trinnov far exceeds what I would make on the consultation. On the other hand, a consultation is basically one and done. I have no responsibility after. A Trinnov is an investment in that client. I can’t just abandon them. It’s not just basic service either. It’s a complicated device with a ton of features and options.
@@PoesAcoustics I think it comes down to the moral compass of the dealer/consultant. It's a very competitive business. If you can charge a reasonable premium for better outcomes, the people who know that the outcome will be better will be willing to pay it. Consumer electronic sales isn't generally a get rich program on the end user level, if I were you I'd probably target higher end consumers because at the end of the day there is only one of you. It's not a very scalable business. I've seen some acoustic engineers make their own speakers or treatments to add margin, which maybe isn't a bad idea either but they're basically just subbing it out and you really have to have a name for that (which you are on your way to!). Tough business, I wish you luck. I've found I could make a lot more money buying and selling stuff because the service business is just so people intensive and always caught me at a ceiling of how much time I could dedicate. I think the more you get into this you're going to find a few of the many things you do rake in the most income (80/20 rule), and when you focus on those you'll really optimize your business. I'm excited to see where this takes you, I think you'll do great.