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You can always look at the anechoic graph and get an idea how good the design is...I would guess, but the problem is that is not how and where any of us live. I can understand how a reviewer is left with many problems and I would not expect them to change out the furnishing of THEIR home everytime a new speaker came into the house.

I am most interested within the confines of their room what remarks they are making upon THAT freq. response. My room will never duplicate any reviewer's room so I must take care in deciding what to buy. Those of you who care and are capable of using diffusers and panels in your room to get as flat as response as possible will always be one up on me. I am glad for you if that floats you boat.

Since I live in the south I think I could start saving up my used styrofoam egg cartons and start stapling them to the back and side walls and then I would have it. It seems to work on the old TV show Hee Haw. Shoot, I just dropped my Slim Jim in the dog's water bowl. Wait...the 5 second rule. Whew!

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I would like to comment on the frequency response of that speaker in the reviewer's room. How much of that horrible response was the room and how much the speaker?


I'm sure most of the low frequency response errors you see are due to the room, but this is actually much better than most rooms that size! The reason other published graphs you see look better is because they're averaged to one third octave which hides all the detail. Most domestic size untreated rooms have half a dozen peak / null spans up to 30 dB or even more - all below 300 Hz. But you won't see that when using most test tone CDs or with averaged measurements.

--Ethan

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I couldn't agree more to what you're into!
With a room that "bad" it's really not a fully justifying review. Top-equipment should be reviewed in "top-rooms", it's only then you can really get the true "soul" of the speaker.

I'm coming back on this one later on

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