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In Reply to: apologies posted by hifitommy on August 30, 2014 at 20:08:12:
Over on the speaker asylum I argued with Atkinson about this very similar statement he made about the Wilsons under discussion.
Atkinson accepted the fact that an inverted midrange was common and did not reflect reality. His defense was that "studies" show that the majority of listeners deem frequency response more important than any other attribute including time and phase alignment.
Again to use Stereophile, if you look up their speaker test measurement explanation, Atkinson in discussing the step impulse test statees that the ideal is a sharp rise followed by a slow ramping down, looking sort of like a right triangle. Atkinson states that in all his years only 10 models from 5 manufacturers ever met anything close to that ideal.
The 5 manufacturers were; Vandersteen, Spica, Quad, Thiel and Dunlavy.
Thus time and phase alignment can be done and with reasonable prices too. The fact that it isn't merey reflects the large amount of advertising and IMHO the fact that reviewers are not either cognizant of the issue or maybe they simply can't hear it.
After many years of CES I am [retty sure they can't hear it, or maybe more accurately they can her something but con't identify the issue. Just my observations after standing behind many well known reviewers while listening to theri tst discs.....
OF cours YMMV and FWIW
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Follow Ups
- Thanks - unclestu 12:55:34 08/31/14 (5)
- RE: "...reviewers are either not cognizant of the issue or *maybe they simply can't hear it*." - genungo 14:41:11 08/31/14 (4)
- Oh yeah - unclestu 17:15:35 08/31/14 (3)
- You don't get it. The "correct" polarity... - genungo 18:27:46 08/31/14 (2)
- LOL !!! - unclestu 13:07:33 09/01/14 (1)
- "I define a realistic system as being much more than FR; you don't" - genungo 14:15:33 09/01/14 (0)
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