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Re: Speaker Measurements vs. Subjective Listening

I don't think any decent speaker designer can eschew measurements in the designing and development of a speaker. It does not necessarily end there though. Although I see more and more support for the notion that we actually like to hear some forms of distortion in our music reproduction, I think that a rather strange view. I am becoming more convinced though that we can and do get used to some stuff that measures worst than other. Often enough the badge of the product is enough to influence the listener into thinking that what he listens to is the best reproduction of music. I think that with better and better ways of measuring speakers and other components in the lab and in proper listening tests by human ears, the products are improving. That some choices have to be made in the design stage that worsens some measured aspect of performance as a price for better overall sound is quite conceivable.



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