[James Price[_5_]]

On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 8:16:19 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
James Price wrote:
On Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 11:26:37 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Very common.
The on-axis frequency response is a nice enough thing but doesn't tell you
very much about how a speaker performs in a given room, because many
listeners are off-axis and much of the lower frequencies are coming to you
by room reflections even if you are on-axis.

And -nobody- ever plots speaker distortion in a useful way.

So, just to be clear, even in the same listening environment / position,
differences are very common?

Sure, because technologies are radically different and applications
are different. You can have a big horn-loaded system with narrow angle
of radiation that is designed to play really loud, and you can have a
conventional minimonitor designed for close-listening and you can have a
big analytic-sounding monitor like a PMC and they will sound totally
different in spite of an on-axis third-octave response being the same.

Not only that, you can take one of those monitors into a different room
and it'll sound totally different. You can even put a blanket on top of
the console to reduce the reflection off the consolee surface and the midrange
will change complately. (That will affect measured response at the
listening position though.)

Thanks, I appreciate the input.