On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:06:11 -0400, Howard Ferstler
wrote:

dave weil wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:39:41 -0400, Howard Ferstler
wrote:

Also, some speakers can do things in home-listening
environments that I rather like, even though they may not
conform entirely to my ultimate requirements for a perfect
speaker. Actually, I am notorious for cutting assorted
speaker designs a lot of slack in my reviews.

Quads, anyone?

Still, I do require flat response at the listening position,
be it dominated by the direct-field performance or the
reverberant-field performance. That is my main, "get into
the ball park" criteria.

Except when "equalization is needed", right?