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Re: A More Realistic Presentation...

If you are actually going to engineer a high fidelity loudspeaker system rather than merely throw one together from parts (as most probably are) one problem you ought to consider is how you are going to deal with room reflections.

Why? Sure we expect a speaker designer to more than merely just throw together parts but isn't there alot more to do with loudspeaker design than simply dealing with room reflection?

Aren't speakers often measured and evaluated in rooms where reflections/interactions are minimized and if not aren't room effects accounted for in such measurements and or descriptions?

Doesn't an assumption on the part of a component designer have as much chance of being beneficial as it does a liability?

It's still a crap shoot which speaker is going to be favored by most in any given situation - whether the speaker was designed in an ideal room (no considerations on room effects) or was designed to a specific room configuration. The responsibility for loudspeaker selection is up to the end user.

It seems unreasonable to me that one should consider one speaker design preferential to another based on how much the design attempts to compensate for room effects - until the speakers being considered are heard in any particular room. Of course which speaker works best in which room may or may not reflect the success of the designs room compensation effects.

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