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In Reply to: Speaker Measurements vs. Subjective Listening posted by lenw on February 18, 2007 at 11:26:57:
the appropriate question may be "how do they correlate with what we hear in any given listening environment?"--with "environment" defined as (a) everything in the playback chain that leads to the speakers and (b) the space into which they work. As I see it, published measurements, whether from a manufacturer or reviewer, are arrived at in what amounts to a vacuum with respect to any given home listening situation. Because of the wide variance in individual environments, a speaker that measures well on the test bench may sound stellar in one situation and so-so in another. And vice versa isn't out of the question, either. That's why you have to subject measurements to your ears to approach anything meaningful when you make a purchase...and why the increasingly rare in-home demo remains the best way to evaluate what's right for you.As for "recreating the live acoustic event", the event we purchase in the form of a black or silver disc or download is essentially the creation of the recording producer/engineer/artist, and its approximation to "live" is, in many instances, anyone's guess. What we're really attempting to recreate as faithfully as possible is what they've packaged for us. And in most instances, if not all, we're not really privy to what they heard, or the conditions under which they heard it, when they finalized the mix we get as the finished product.
Jim
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- I don't dismiss measurements, but... - Jim Treanor 12:24:46 02/18/07 (2)
- While I agree with what you say................. - lenw 13:12:49 02/18/07 (1)
- Of course... - Jim Treanor 14:24:49 02/18/07 (0)
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