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@thespeakerdude You did educate me previously, and it is brilliant saying "as an audiophile thing it doesn't have to make sense". I know microphones and when there is poor off axis coloration the on axis doesn't sound as good because you are listening to the entire polar pattern off axis and all. Having your head in a vice is cool but no fun some of the most meaningful moments in sound are when you can share your emotional journey with your wife or someone like that who has let you spend so much money on this emotional hobby. MTM off axis doesn't work and the stereo image has at least 4 drivers trying to make you hear a 2 foot to 2 inch wave there is no way to get really good imaging with a non point source speaker, I feel like I'm really missing something still, the advantages are few and the disadvantages are huge, same goes with line array speakers. The blending of waves from midrange line array speakers is by definition a phase problem. Sometimes I feel like there is so much BS in the audiophile world.

@donavabdear

I feel like there is so much BS in the audiophile world.

To me the king of BS are measurements. I can understand BS in marketing, it is supposed to be pitched that way. Nobody ever says we are the second best company in audio. But publishing SINAD below the level of human hearing and then giving it a trophy? THAT is some BS. Then you have the variables, how was it measured and where and with what and by who. Then because you actually measured something now you gift wrap it in science which means BS is wrapped in more BS.
The BS meter was on tilt so badly AES had to draft new standards to replace the old BS:

I don’t expect AES-75 to have much or really any impact or influence on the audiophile community. It would be inaccurate to say it is targeted at the professional market only, but that will be one area where it will be used. It will also be a useful tool for professional users, i.e. engineers working on vehicle sound systems to provide a more useful and consistent measurement of how loud a system will go. It will no doubt show up in data sheets for some consumer products, and suppliers of test equipment will add it to their test suite but for the average consumer it will go unnoticed.

On measurements in general, given that many audiophiles don’t trust the science currently, including, importantly, what the limits are of the audibility of distortion, than measuring or rewarding performance below or far below scientifically validated limits is not unwarranted.

The BS that AES75 recognizes and attempts to address is that you need verifiable standards, not some whack job with a volt meter measuring stuff in his thread bare living room:

" AES75 is designed to be independently verifiable, using analyzers and microphones typically used by audio professionals. By being independently verifiable, AES75 provides system specifiers and users a much more enforceable metric to use in quotes and architectural specs.”