Posted by RGA (A) on August 06, 2007 at 16:24:12

In Reply to: RE: It should be noted that Peter Qvortrup defended the bass and sensitivity rating on the HE forum... posted by Artur on August 06, 2007 at 11:54:48

the problem is for me that a lot of people put all their eggs into the measurements and thus I find it rather unfair and misleading for people to suggest that Audio Note is misleading people.

For instance AN right on their website notes that specs are "in-room" results and must be corner loaded to achieve the bass and sensitivity ratings. Audio Note is providing a real world number in my view. SO the magazine tests it not in room not in a corner and then claims AN is misleading people.

The silly thing is that AN is partnering 10 watt or less amps with these speakers so it's so blinking obvious that their efficiency rating are on the terrific side of the scale. And the bass is obviously deep and tuneful.

The measurements are not that important here since they have yet to correlate with what one actually hears -- (SET for example measures badly but sounds better) but they certainly can be used to mislead people.