Shadorne,
I wouldn't put much faith in those charts unless you have exact information on how they do the measurements... Depending on the measurement methodology, the speakers might measure differently using other methodologies.
In any case, the room itself is going to influence his impressions exponentially more than the measurements of either speaker will. In both of these cases the frequency differences between these two speakers will be negligible compared to the room interaction itself... In other words, what he was describing is going to be a product of the speaker interaction with the room much much more than either speaker's inherent response in this situation with such minor response differences between the speakers. Drawing the conclusions you are drawing from those two graphs, is fallacious.
The Stereophile measurement of the Studio 2 is much flatter BTW, and they state their exact methodology... It goes to show how easily these kind of measurements can give different results depending on the method (and equipment) used. A frequency response measurement is good for telling you how the speaker behaves in a vacuum. A flat frequency response from a speaker makes it easy to see the problems in the room itself due to speaker placement and room modes/nulls and to predict speaker placement based on those interactions. So, in a situation such as this, changing the placement between the two speakers could likely change his perception of both speakers quite a bit. The differences in their build character likely warrants very different placement, much like my Salon2s don't perform as well in the same position as the W/P8s.
When you have speakers that are wildly off flat response, then you really have little predictability to speaker placement, and raise the potential for overlapping speaker issues with room issues in negative ways.
I wouldn't put much faith in those charts unless you have exact information on how they do the measurements... Depending on the measurement methodology, the speakers might measure differently using other methodologies.
In any case, the room itself is going to influence his impressions exponentially more than the measurements of either speaker will. In both of these cases the frequency differences between these two speakers will be negligible compared to the room interaction itself... In other words, what he was describing is going to be a product of the speaker interaction with the room much much more than either speaker's inherent response in this situation with such minor response differences between the speakers. Drawing the conclusions you are drawing from those two graphs, is fallacious.
The Stereophile measurement of the Studio 2 is much flatter BTW, and they state their exact methodology... It goes to show how easily these kind of measurements can give different results depending on the method (and equipment) used. A frequency response measurement is good for telling you how the speaker behaves in a vacuum. A flat frequency response from a speaker makes it easy to see the problems in the room itself due to speaker placement and room modes/nulls and to predict speaker placement based on those interactions. So, in a situation such as this, changing the placement between the two speakers could likely change his perception of both speakers quite a bit. The differences in their build character likely warrants very different placement, much like my Salon2s don't perform as well in the same position as the W/P8s.
When you have speakers that are wildly off flat response, then you really have little predictability to speaker placement, and raise the potential for overlapping speaker issues with room issues in negative ways.
