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Originally Posted by KMC45
Simply put, most listeners preferred loudspeakers that had the smoothest, flatest, and most extended frequency responses maintained uniformly off axis.
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thanks for posting this, which was going to be my response to cmalak and vesuvius. It's real published research, double blind tests, with trained and untrained subjects---better speakers are those that measure better.
you have to take the room out of the equation---no one can account for that apart from custom builds, to answer phc1. This really is a red herring. And while wilson may have three (!) rooms, harman has an entire testing facility. With a speaker placement robot for whatever that's worth!
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Originally Posted by KMC45
As to Revel, the biggest complaint i've heard about the speaker is people think it looks cheap in comparison to others in that price group. That's a huge factor to overcome when playing in that arena. Looking cheap is a subjective appraisal, but I really think it keeps more people from owning the speaker.
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and there lies the rub. I despise the salon2 look. I love the sasha design (I'm a modernist, it'll match my furniture (no, really)). Careful a/b tests will determine if the loss in fidelity is worth the aesthetic. I wish my visual preferences weren't so important. Alas.