[Scott Dorsey]

wrote:
Scott Dorsey and Ian Shepard are
two of the biggest "use your ears"/
"whatever sounds best" advocates
in and out of rec.audio.pro. So I
meant it: Why label the backs of
amps and speakers with impedance
ranges, have meters on equipment,
or have specification sheets, since
specs "don't matter" according to
those two? Take altimeters out of
planes and speedometers out of
cars & trucks while we're at it -
just fly as high as feels comfortable,
and go with the flow in traffic!

If your specification sheet consists only of useless information
like a scalar impedance number (which really bears little connection
to the actual speaker impedance plot), a frequency range without
tolerances (which is utterly meaningless) and speaker power ratings that
are made up by someone in the marketing department, then by all means we
should definitely not have specification sheets.

Because these are not actual specifications, they are not actual measurements,
they are more misleading than helpful.

Making decisions based on such information is not going to do you any good,
it will only give you a false sense of being informed when you are not.
--scott


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