But Trevor, I thought room nodes and ideal audiophile ratios were myths, unless you place a single speaker in one corner and your listening position was in another corner of the room.

https://www.harman.com/documents/LoudspeakersandRoomsPt3_0.pdf
(See page 18)

I'd still argue that frequency response is king for consumer loudspeakers, and we can tackle the low frequency room issues with furnishings, EQ, and one or more subwoofers.

https://youtu.be/5dSXPsIJrhc

(He talks about headphones, but if you like Andrew's straight talk on YT, you'll like his too: hitting the target frequency response matter more than anything else; distortion doesn't matter until it does, so just add powaaaah!)


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