Does this mean that Gene won't be making his visit to Dwight next spring?

Okay, I've quickly gone over this and what jumps out at me is that instead of simply declining to participate(as several other manufacturers did)Axiom apparently made some type of specific objection on technological grounds. If this wasn't well-founded, it made Axiom vulnerable to being the clearly identifiable target of the editorial which otherwise might have been characterized as whining over the loss of an advertiser. The ground plane subwoofer measurement technique, correctly implemented, is to my knowledge widely recognized as being very close in accuracy to results measured in free space. The cited article in Audioholics about three years ago by Sanfilipo demonstrates this, and other material in the literature which I've studied, including papers in my AES Journal, is to a similar effect.

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