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In Reply to: Beats me posted by hesson11 on January 19, 2015 at 15:06:17:
The only person you have to answer to is you. All loudspeakers - every damn one of them - is inaccurate.
Show me the speaker that has 0 distortion at 100dB, perfect phase, flat response full bandwidth (polar response is the standard) without deviation from the left and right speakers (ie; pair matching is perfect) perfect macro micro and mid dynamics, zero deviation of any kind anywhere.
So once you accept the fact that the speaker isn't accurate you can now put a big ole smile on your face and buy a speaker that makes you happy. You have now accepted the fact that you will be making various trades - a little more XYZ at the expense of ABC - someone else will want more ABC than what the Harbeths can muster but probably won't have the XYZ that Harbeth fans find to be the magic elixir.
And the reality is there are so many fans of different "truths" on audio forums and in the press. One guy will tell you it MUST be an active boxed speaker like ATC, someone else will tell you it must be a horn, a single driver, someone else will say it must be a Panel, a transmission line, must be pistonic speakers, an omni-directional and each will espouse the supreme accuracy of the technology. It must be this or that tweeter, it must use scanspeak, it must be SET friendly....
The truth is that the horn has some strengths, the omni-directionals do some amazing thing, the transmission line or single driver can't be bettered. And then each will trot out a measurement of some aspect of the speaker that does indeed look better than the rest of the field - they target the thing that makes it look better as some sort of evidence of their superior preference.
And all of that crap falls away if when you audition the Harbeths versus highly touted XYZ the Harbeth makes the musicians come alive in your room when XYZ doesn't.
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