[Neil[_9_]]

On 5/27/2019 1:18 AM, 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?

Not just common, but unavoidable. Even with the same monitors of the
same brand used in the same position, etc. The ability of human senses
to discern small differences is still well beyond the capability to
manufacture products with more precision than one may be able to detect.

As I see it, the real question is, "So what?" The primary purpose of
monitors is to allow one to manage the sound of their production and
reduce problems with the understanding that it will sound very different
in every environment that the material is played in, regardless of the
hardware used.

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best regards,

Neil