First, Kenjit, some of us believe in freedom. You want to remove freedom from the speaker manufacturers. Where else should we remove freedoms? It sounds like a dangerous argument in a time when the US Capitol was so recently stormed.
Second, there are no standardized speaker measurements that exist. Those normally are established by some sort of industry consortium. Heck, we just recently changed official measurements for length and time.
Finding a set of measurements that all would agree to as relevant would not be easy. Anechoic measurements? Do you listen in an anechoic room? I don’t and would not choose to, even though such rooms are useful for modeling. They feel absolutely oppressive and lifeless to be in. Should we use test tones? They are not always reflective of music. And using which testing equipment. Lots of variation there. Often times, one has to figure out if problems that appear are engineering problems, or problems inherent in the test parameters themselves. What level of barometric pressure and room temperature should be chosen, as they impact speed and sound propagation?
Should we use a specific piece of music, or some from each genre? Using what source or playback equipment? How will we insure playback equipment is all operating at similar parameters in different testing centers?
How much will testing cost? Who absorbs the costs? Will this disadvantage small producers, reducing market competition and thus harming consumers? Will it increase cost of a product in which no one’s life is endangered (as opposed to cars or medicines)? Haven’t you repeatedly railed against what you see as inflated speaker cost?
i could do this all day long.
And why on earth should the enjoyment of a subjective aesthetic experience be subjected to your notion of what the good is, Kenjit? There are about 20,000 things wrong with your post.
Second, there are no standardized speaker measurements that exist. Those normally are established by some sort of industry consortium. Heck, we just recently changed official measurements for length and time.
Finding a set of measurements that all would agree to as relevant would not be easy. Anechoic measurements? Do you listen in an anechoic room? I don’t and would not choose to, even though such rooms are useful for modeling. They feel absolutely oppressive and lifeless to be in. Should we use test tones? They are not always reflective of music. And using which testing equipment. Lots of variation there. Often times, one has to figure out if problems that appear are engineering problems, or problems inherent in the test parameters themselves. What level of barometric pressure and room temperature should be chosen, as they impact speed and sound propagation?
Should we use a specific piece of music, or some from each genre? Using what source or playback equipment? How will we insure playback equipment is all operating at similar parameters in different testing centers?
How much will testing cost? Who absorbs the costs? Will this disadvantage small producers, reducing market competition and thus harming consumers? Will it increase cost of a product in which no one’s life is endangered (as opposed to cars or medicines)? Haven’t you repeatedly railed against what you see as inflated speaker cost?
i could do this all day long.
And why on earth should the enjoyment of a subjective aesthetic experience be subjected to your notion of what the good is, Kenjit? There are about 20,000 things wrong with your post.