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Why wont speaker companies publish their measurements?

It's not ok to assess the quality of a speaker just by listening to it. Most listeners are not trained. They dont have the skills or knowledge of an expert like me to know what the hell they are listening for. There are too many other variables that affect the sound quality such as room acoustics, source material, amp quality, hearing loss, preference etc. For all these reasons, we MUST rely on speaker measurements ALONE when deciding how good a speaker is. 

The problem is however that the wretched speaker companies WONT DO IT! They just will not publish their measurements. 

Are they embarrassed? Are they hiding it? Do they even have the measurements? Worried they wont match if somebody else does the measurements?

Speaker companies cannot claim that their speaker is superior to a competitors speaker since neither of them will publish their measurements. As a result the claims are uncorroborated HOGWASH. Despite this, there is intense competition among the speaker companies. There is a WAR going on out there and its a war that cannot be won!

The only way to separate the wheat from the chaff is to examine the measurements. Until that happens nobody has the right to claim that one speaker is better than another. Nobody knows which speakers are better than others. Until the day comes when they will publish the data, its all just hearsay and opinions.

If you want to be a first rate audiophile, do not settle for anything less than the TRUTH. We deserve it.

kenjit
kenjit OP
1,771 posts
 
If you know where to look you can find this stuff instead of bitching about it
Or maybe the speaker companies should publish them so that people like me dont have to bitch about it? Did that ever occur to you?

Whats the REASON they wont do it?  Do you have any answers to that? 
djones51
4,947 posts
 
No. They should.
dill
2,525 posts
 
Hey, you are correct, so I vacuumed out all the "distortion going on inside your speakers". Guess what, it does sound different, it sounds worse with zero distortion! The inside is made of solid ice so the sound just slides out, effortlessly, smooth and cool. The drivers at one time where not very good, however I enrolled them in driving school and the improvement is jaw dropping. Looking forward to your next silly statement, I am sure you won't disappoint.
kenjit OP
1,771 posts
 
Genelec 8351B
Ive heard the smaller ones. Not that good. Horrible things. Measurements have to be standardized. We need the CORRECT and COMPLETE measurements not just the ones the speaker companies find convenient. Not just one or two that look good and omitting the ones that are bad. The genelecs use DSP to achieve flat response. Thats cheating. Anybody could do that.
kenjit OP
1,771 posts
 
Dill if you want my expert advice, you are going to have to face up to the facts. If you want better sound you are just going to have to get rid of those nasty speakers you have. I used to own wooden boxes like that before. They are ok for teenagers or people that dont require a high level of sound quality. But if you want PERFECT sound, you will need to upgrade. If you knock on your wooden boxes, you will hear a nasty resonance. Unfortunately you will have a lot of midrange leakage out the front port too. And since it a sealed box you have trapped all that horrible sound inside where it cant get out. Kef use meta technology to remove this leakage but yours obviously dont use meta technology so it wont  be as good. As you can see speaker design is not easy. It requires a lot of knowledge to get it right. 
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