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In Reply to: It's not useful... posted by Jim Austin on February 19, 2007 at 07:53:24:
it is much more useful to listen to as many different types of speakers as practical, than to worry over published graphs of careful test results.The single most important factor in home reproduction is to match the speaker to the room. Speaker dispersion determines the degree and delay times of reflected versus direct sound, and it is much easier to get the best dispersion pattern, which is characteristic of the speaker type, than to treat the room to ameliorate unpleasant dispersion properties.
Different people have different tolerances for size of the 'sweet spot.' Some folks like the efficiency benefits (dynamic contrasts for loud music) of narrow sweet spots, such as obtain with planar electrostats, while others would willingly sacrifice dynamics for a wider sweet spot that allows freedom of head motion without destroying the stereophonic illusion.
The second most important factor, in my opinion, is the impedance match between the speaker and amplifier. Published measurements do not reveal the damping characteristics required of the amplifier (nor could they, given that the room modes as well as the speaker drivers affect the damping).
If you have a setup that you like, and want to upgrade speaker performance within the same type and impedance range, then the published results of measurements could be a guide to auditions.
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- Agree. For the typical audio enthusiast, - Al Sekela 08:48:31 02/19/07 (0)
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