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RE: Is this the article?

I looked at the curves. The anechoic measurements certainly confirm that the speakers are grossly overpriced. I'm not so sure about the in-room curve. It doesn't look so great, but I suspect that the same could be said about most audiophile's systems unless they have been very carefully set up. It is very hard to get smooth response in the bass in most listening rooms. My own in-room response is much smoother now, but that wasn't the case when I first started to set up my Focals.

The highs in Art's system are clearly rolled off way too much. Flat response is not a good idea as most recordings are closely miked and will sound excessively bright, but 10 dB at 10 kHz is too much roll off. My system has about 4 dB of roll-off dialed in. With the default tweeter settings it was unlistenably bright on some recordings, e.g. the Mercury Living Presence series. The setting was a compromise, as the Mercuries sounded better with another dB of roll off, but then other recordings became too dull.





Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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