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And to be real frank, trends, graphs and pie charts don't mean crapola to me.
These are charts of a speakers response at a given level measured at a given distance for a band of frequencies. By definition, these "crapola" charts show exactly how precise a speaker is.
Having said that...
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Hearing is totally perspective to the person’s likes, dislikes and preconceived notions, not something that can be quantified by an electronic instrument.
Speaker neutrality can be measured. What the listener wants to hear can't be. I've mentioned my brother a few times, as a great example of two people with the same "nature and nurture" as it were, who couldn't possibly have more different tastes in sound. I like high end. Treble
is spatialization. I run my treble controls high on my monitors and in the car, I like metal and poly cones, he prefers 10" paper cones - and I'm sure he's removed and eaten tweeters.
My M3s are "hideously bright" to him... his 1982 paper woofer towers are "undetailed and muddy" to me. Are either of us wrong - no, what we have makes us happy.
Bren R.
