Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Why not audition them?

If they are for sale in a local newspaper, surely the seller would be able to give you an audition. That way, you could make up your own mind.

Think about this scenerio. You are told that two sets of speakers are available for you to audition, only you will not be allowed to see them -- just hear them. You are blindfolded and led into a room. The host plays several pieces of music that you are familiar with and switches back and forth between the two sets of speakers. After some time, you choose one of the speaker systems as sounding the best of the two. Your blindfold is removed and you are handed spec sheets for each of the two sets of speakers.

The system you chose doesn't measure as well as the one you didn't choose.

Do you:
a) change your mind because specs are more important than what your own ears tell you
or
b) hand the spec sheets back to the host and reassert your opinion?


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