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In Reply to: RE: How to choose a budget...... posted by Bill the K on October 25, 2016 at 08:13:19
Measurements are impartial while subjective comments are from his hearing perspective based on the room environment he's in. Unless you hear exactly like him and your listening environment is exactly like what it is in JA's setup, then you could miss the boat entirely. Do you know if JA's measurements are done in anoechi chamber or measure in such a way to mitigate the effects of the room enviornments? If the measurements mitigate the effects of the room or are taken in anoechic chamber, JA's measurements will tell how a speaker will perform. It takes practise to read the graphs and interpret how that sounds.
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" It takes practise to read the graphs and interpret how that sounds."
Unfortunately no matter how good your knowledge is regarding interpreting graphs you will have no idea what the speaker actually sounds like. You will have some idea of how well it is engineered. That is all.
I note in relation to this that you appear to have no idea of how JA takes the measurements. Without this you will be unable to make even basic interpretations of the graphs. I am surprised at this if you are a regular reader of 'phile as JA is meticulous in discussing his test procedures fairly regularly.
Dr. Floyd Toole has said that speakers from different manufacturers with similar curves (not just frequency response curves) will sound very similar to one another. So if you like the sound of speaker A and speaker B has close to identical curves, then speaker B will sound the same.
As to your note about JA, I haven't read an article one of his reviews (no I'm not a regular reader of Stereophile) for a while. I rather ask and make sure rather then blindly stating something that is wrong or not true.
It may be the case for Dr. O'Toole given the highly sophistiacted resources for speaker measurement that Harman International provide him with. He will, no doubt, be in a position to drill down further into the measurement of speaker behaviour than any magazine reviewer. Note, however, that he only goes as far as saying "similar" and not identical.In regard to the opinion that irrespective of measurements the actual sound of a speaker can finally only be judged by listening I am , of course, paraphrasing John Atkinson himself.
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Thanks for the correction Kal. At least I didn't confuse you as to who I meant.
Competent speaker measurements are usually taken in anoechic chambers or designed to eliminate in room responses. However, these measurements negate the effects of a room's acoustic properties which We all know interacts with a speaker's anoechic response.Please read posts number 51 and 52 and you will see where I'm coming from.
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