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In Reply to: Do measurements matter? - linked article posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne on January 23, 2015 at 15:39:56:
Someone recently wrote a letter to Stereophile taking them to task for including measurements in reviews. I didn't agree with that individual at all.
The field is called audio engineering for a reason. Its practitioners are engineers who are people who try to measure and quantify the electrical, mechanical and acoustical properties of their designs. To paraphrase Paul Klipsch, "you can't make what you can't measure because you won't know when you've got it made."
I have read reviews in The Absolute Sound where the writer included frequency response "measurements" of a component under review. I thought that was the publication that didn't believe in measurements!
Specifications can be misleading and marketing and advertising types can get very "creative" when including specifications in copy.
Speakers are especially difficult to nail down--there are so many variables--room size and surface treatments, speaker and listener location and so on. I think John Bowers had as good an approach as possible using good engineering principles then subjecting the speakers to listeners who were musicians who had performed the works they were listening to.
The Aristotelean mean seems to me best--not no measurements, not no auditions, but a judicious balance of each, both contributing to a well designed speaker.
For me, the audition in my listening room ultimately determines whether or not speakers stay there, but I still want to read the specs and measurements.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Do measurements matter? - linked article - George S. Roland 22:55:53 01/23/15 (2)
- RE: Do measurements matter? - linked article - mkuller 10:11:23 01/24/15 (1)
- RE: Do measurements matter? - linked article - Jack D II 11:21:29 01/24/15 (0)
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