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RE: Those darn measurements !

Posted by A.Wayne on June 24, 2017 at 17:26:14:
Can you explain what you mean by "everything" and "listening bias" please?
Thd/IMD measurements alone wont tell us "everything" about the sound of a speaker , with some experience from modeling and actually building with similar drivers one can take a stab at it , but you would be hard pressed to say who would or would not like them , mostly Due to listener Bias, listener experience and demands ..
Some listeners are sensitive to thd , some not , Tone and timbre means different things to different listeners , same for live and dynamic, the best the designer can do is identify "camps" then adjust ( the art) accordingly, This is applicable to amps, pre-amps, Speakers and the genie of tone control , tone and timbre , cables ...!
RGA view the coloration of his AN speakers as music , the owners of maggies view AN speakers as having boxy colorations , some hear dynamics where others frown..
Listener Bias .. One man's anathema is anothers euphoria ...
Horns are riding high again , what has changed ..? Nothing, they died due to the mass marketing of audio did not accomodate them , they are back because said mass market is now defunct and the miniscule audiophile community is going full circle ..

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