[Trevor]

On 24/06/2019 3:01 am, Mark Spilberg wrote:
On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 6:00:21 AM UTC-5, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/26/2019 11:15 PM, James Price wrote:
In your experience, how common is it for monitors with the same tolerances and a similar frequency response to sound perceptibly different?

All the time. Some of us here differ in the legitimacy of some published
loudspeaker specifications, but one thing that's always smoothed too
much to be comparable is frequency response - both on-axis and off-axis.
And distortion measurements, if published at all, are usually kind of
ambiguous.

It's a bit of a miracle, really, that two identical speaker systems
sound as close to identical as they do, particularly when compared as a
pair, because they can't be in exactly the same position at the same
time, and a couple of inches can make a perceptible difference, if
you're perceptive enough (and not all of us are).

Agree 100%, and same thing goes for Amplifiers, D/A convertors, Pre-amps, Compressors, EQs, etc...


Er NO. Unlike speakers, *most* electronics have long since passed the
ability of the human auditory system to actually hear differences, as
opposed to convincing yourself you can, but easily dismissed in double
blind testing. When there are real audible differences it is usually
because of poor design, cost cutting, user error, or just plain broken.