dave weil wrote:

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?

While I never equalize when reviewing speakers, I have
equalized all of the front speakers in my three systems, as
well as the standard-surround and back-surround speakers in
my main system. Issues 94 and 95 of The Sensible Sound have
articles by me that show why equalization can help even the
very best systems, due to room artifacts.

In none of my systems is more than 4 dB of equalization used
at any frequency. Applying any more will cause problems with
the direct-field and reverberant-field balances.

Howard Ferstler