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why doesn't mid-fi harshness show up on FR tests?

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Before I cared much about gear, I owned many many bad receivers, speakers and pro-audio gear--JVC, Yamaha, post-glory Marantz, etc.--all of which had to be run with the treble knobs spun fully counter-clockwise for fear of flaking paint off the walls.

Yet, the consumer mags and product literature always showed these things with ruler-flat frequency response curves. What gives? I'm no golden ear, but even I can tell when the treble's all out of whack, and I'm not talking about +/- a few dB's; I mean peaks sharp enough to scrape your shoes on.

I've seen some of this in the high end also, for example the latest and greatest budget speakers that Stereophile graphs totally flat yet thread after thread in the Asylum complains they're "ear bleeders."

Are these FR tests just completely phonied up?

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