3D lifelike sound and impeccable measurements - mutually exclusive???

The thing with me, I’ll be fiddling with the tone controls. Flat measuring speakers are just that. LOL Who measured what? The measure of good sound is "HOW does it sound to YOU"? I don’t count on your preference, you shouldn’t count in mine...

For speakers I always look at materials, I love beautiful things, to a point...where’s the beef? 20k speakers you better have something besides 2 or 3 drivers in a box no mater what it’s made out of.
Everything else is window dressing.. Lookin cool is cool, but it ain’t 20k cool, 1/2 the cost in materials and options on finish.. Maybe..

You know why a 50k amps cost 50k? Because somebody paid that for it..
Wasn’t worth a nickel until someone paid that for it..

Flat measurements.. that went out the door as soon as you put ANY speaker in a room...AY? ANY SPEAKER and ANY ROOM.. They are all different..

I think a speaker CAN measure well and sound good, some more so than others.. I’m also a believer there is no substitution for the NUMBER of drivers. MORE IS BETTER... I don’t care what you own.. MORE IS BETTER...
No I don’t care if you haven’t learned that yet.. Just like BASS columns.. when your tired of the good sound you’ll try bass columns.. THEN you’ll finally hear what I like.. GREAT sound.. is there better? NO!

DB Servo array with NARROW MB columns and NARROW baffle monitors... I’m closer than I’ve ever been..
How do they measure? When the room is close to finished, I’m gonna start charging admission... :-)

I bet you I made 25 different horn shapes too.. 25 years of that crazy venture.. Sure is something about the RIGHT horn.. and about 2-4 watts playing LOUD and clear and just perfect... Billie Holiday Perfect is in the EARS of the beholder, ay OP?

Tap Tap.. Lambada, Amiga!

Regards

"Nothing is ever perfect."

Except millercarbon's system...

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367

I have not found measurements useful in regard to how well a piece of equipment will reproduce music in my system. What I mean by that is it will not tell me how wide or deep the soundstage will be, how much definition I’ll get with individual instruments within that soundstage or even how realistic human voices & instruments will be reproduced. That stated, they are not absolutely useless. Some measurements can give me an idea of what equipment should mate up well. Examples of that are; phono preamp gain to find a phono preamp that mates up well with low output MC’s / Speaker sensitivity & ohm rating to help determine what amp(s) are required to power them well.

All the best

I can't imagine sitting listening to a great immersive 3D sounding system and then worrying about whether it measures well or not.

+1 jond