$15,000 Speaker Does Not List Freq Response Specs

Who cares? Those numbers are always so cooked and then measured in non-real world spaces with God knows whose microphone and "weighted" formulate that what you hear in your room bears little to no resemblance to specs given.

I read in Absolute sound that the speaker is a steal at 15k. I believe it also comes with a subwoofer. Who ever wrote the review said there was no need to spend more money on a speaker.

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Who cares? Those numbers are always so cooked and then measured in non-real world spaces with God knows whose microphone and "weighted" formulate that...

..interesting. With that logic, why would any speaker mfg bother to post frequency response specs if they're all meaningless?
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Frequency response stats on a speaker are useless...the number may be listed but only in an anechoic environment. Much of a speaker's sound is how it performs in YOUR room, with your components. If there is no way to listen to it, it must have a generous return policy.

With "frequency response specs," do you mean curves (and +/- dB tolerances) or simply numbers indicating frequency extension up- and downwards?

If the latter in particular I'd say specs are pretty much worthless. Of course a stated steep roll-off below 80-90Hz would indicate to most, or so I gather, that sub-augmentation is needed, but hopefully a purchase is based on actual audition (and the added information that can be had by simply looking at the speakers and knowing their driver implementation) than dwelling on mere numbers. Certainly the actual bass quality (what's the spec-numner for that?) in its central region is wholly more significant.

Whether a speaker rolls off above 16-17kHz or 35kHz (or even 80kHz) and what this means in regards to audible significance at large I'd say is completely irrelevant; in fact I'd call it marketing BS to claim otherwise. If anything frequency irregularities (i.e.: peaks) above what is regarded the limits of human hearing may or may not impact on perceived sonics.

Where curves are supplied the challenge, as with spec numbers, is their measured context and overall trustworthiness, and in any case I don't see what can be deduced from them being remotely as informative as actual listening. It's indeed critical, and oddly interesting when so much emphasis is placed on frequency extremes, primarily from reading specs, when what's audibly between is so much more interesting.