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"As Floyd Toole once said, the single most important measurement is amplitude on-axis."

That is one philosophy but I know other designers who think power response is more important.

"They measure distortion at 1m so I suppose that they also measure amplitude at 1m."

You may be right but do you think a measurement of a 1st order xover designed speaker will give an accurate picture of even its on-axis FR at say 3-4 meters? Hardly. Also, being a 1st order design the height axis is important...especially when the measurement is made so close up.


"The in-room response very much depends on the room. A speaker measuring absolutely flat anechoic could measure desastrous in-room."

Naturally Klaus and this is my whole point. In this case a flat on-axis FR is not worth a hill of beans if it has poor dispersion characteristics and the resulting in-room response sucks. By contrast, this speaker, which measures not so good at 1m at god knows what height, might have a beautifully flat smooth in-room response in a small to medium sized room that it was obviously designed for.

"Frankly, I do not need to compare the speakers to know that I prefer the K+H. They come at about 36% of the price of the SF and you get the power amps."

To each his own but remember there is no such thing as a free lunch and if they are throwing in the amps at that price one has to wonder about the sound of said amps.

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