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In Reply to: Amazing posted by Jon Risch on February 20, 2007 at 21:20:24:
Come on Jon -- I'm retired now but still don't have enough time to read such a long post. More concise please.This is about deciding which speakers to audition.
There are way too many brands and models to hear them all.
So how do you narrow down the candidates for auditions?
I say measurements work better than reviews (text).
The reviews are so often positive that I'm not sure you could eliminate any speakers just from the text!
Even when the review finds many faults, the review conclusion often says you should audition them anyway!
The measurements are usually average, or don't reveal much to the layman, but sometimes there are unusually bad or unusually good measurements.
Avoiding speakers with unusually bad measurements, and seeking speakers with unusually good measurements, makes sense.
More sense than flipping a coin.
Example 1:
A BassNut who strongly prefers full range sound will be able to glance at an on-axis anechoic frequency response curve and get a good idea whether the speakers will have enough bass output under 50Hz. to satisfy him.Reading the text of a speaker review will too often reveal an overexcited positive opinion by a reviewer who can live with bass roll-off under 50Hz., because he likes so much else about the speakers, or doesn't notice the weak bass so much because he places the speakers in the room corners of his walk-in-closet-sized room!
Over time an audiophile may find that a certain measurement(s) done by a certain reviewer, or by Atkinson, works fairly well to identify speakers worthy of an audition. You could miss good sounding speakers that happen to measure poorly, but you are more likely to find good speakers that measure well ... no matter what you say.
Please point out one speaker model whose anechoic on-axis frequency response is poor in the 80-2000Hz. "midrange" (let's say worse than +/-3dB with one-third octave smoothing)... but most listeners still think it's a great sounding speaker? You'd have us believe poor on-axis response has no correlation with subjective auditions at all.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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Follow Ups
- Your post is way too long to read but here's a simple example of using measurements for good (me) rather than evil (you) - Richard BassNut Greene 09:08:51 02/21/07 (0)
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