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Re: Fortunately, that's not the way it works...

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The reviews I have read over the last 30 years, begining with Stereo Review, Audio, The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, etc never quite seem to say in words what is so painfully obvious looking at the measurments. When the waterfall plots, impulse graphs and phase charts show pathetic time/phase performance, or drivers wired out of absolute polarity, and the impedence curves show wild swings, how then does the reviewer write such glowing purple prowse about that speaker that measures so poorly yet cost so much? Perhaps reviewers cannot hear phase shifts. Perhaps they don't know the speaker with wild impedence curves will be hard to drive and sound different on various amplifiers. Kinda like Fox News. Fair and balanced? Audio mags should adopt the following slogan, stolen partly from Fox: We report, you decipher the graphs" Your telling me that if you wrote "This $100K speaker has so much phase shift that it cannot accuratly reproduce a musical waveform" those full page ads would not be yanked in a New York minute?

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