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In Reply to: Speaker Measurements vs. Subjective Listening posted by lenw on February 18, 2007 at 11:26:57:
What are we measuring? What a saxophone sounds like in an acoustically dead and neutral environment?And when does it ever get heard live in a place like that?
And when do any two venues even sound the same? Or conductors? Or even the time of year and the weather variables (humidity, air pressure etc...)
Does anyone take equipment with them to concerts and measure the performance as well? (after all, THAT is the live sound we are supposed to be after, why aren't we measuring that?) I'm sure that would go over well too - "Um, excuse me Mr. Bernstein, sounds great and all tonight but I'm registering a dip here in the lower mid band I'm not happy with at all......"
The only meter we need is already installed in our head. If it doesn't work right, the other exercises are pointless anyway. Measuring can be useful to help identify a flaw we hear, in other words "this didn't sound right, sure enough, there it is" and the manufacturer can then go about redressing the issue.
But to use it as the absolute? How many more books must be written about us giving ourselves over to the machines before we wise up?
It's all about the music...
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