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In article ,
Andrew Haley wrote:

Bob Lombard wrote:

Looks to me like you are both right - or both wrong, depending. If the
prospective buyer is a rockaholic, he wants speakers that do rock
really well, and there is nothing wrong with reviewing the speakers
with that in mind. If accurate reproduction of acoustic material (and
really other music too) is the prospective buyer's goal... this stuff is
so simple, guys, you must just like to argue, eh?

I don't think so. A well-designed loudspeaker should reproduce the
sound it's fed, whatever the source of that sound. The idea of a
"speaker that does rock really well" is fundamentally misguided. The
ideal speaker doesn't have any sound of its own.

Andrew.

That is correct and is basically part and parcel of my point. All speaker characteristics (as well as the characteristics of other components such as amps, DACS, CD players and turntables. etc.) can be assessed using properly recorded acoustic music, and if the component is good using that, it will be good with studio-produced pop and rock. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the reverse. For instance, you can't use pop/rock to test for image specificity, because being multitrack and multi-miked with all instruments pan-potted into place by the recording team, it has none. There's no image height, no front to back no stereo depth.