With measurements like that, the speaker would sound fine.
The problem with PLC
Firstly what is PLC? PLC stands for the PERFECT LOUDSPEAKER COMPANY. It is a hypothetical speaker company that would manufacture a perfect speaker and sell it to the public.
Now here is the problem with this idea. Imagine a genius somewhere invents a perfect speaker. It can do 20~20Khz with 0.01% distortion at all levels/frequencies. It is as flat as a pancake and has CTPRT or Custom Tunable Polar Response Technology.
Now he decides to put it in a plain unmarked cardboard box and put it on the market. No dealership, no marketing. Stereophile calls PLC and asks for a sample to review. PLC agrees and sends them out a pair. The selling price? $700 a pair.
The review would go something like this. ''Here we have a newcomer to the speaker industry. The PLC speaker One designed by expert tuner, Master Kenjit CEO of PLC. A budget speaker. Looks very plain and ordinary. Sounded a bit flat. Not highly recommended as it did not sound very special. But nice first attempt. Suitable for college students on a budget.''
Measurements:
Perfect from 20-20khz. We have never seen anything like it. ZERO resonances. Impedance flat as a pancake. Miraculous. But didnt sound very good, so we cannot give it a Stereophile recommendation.
Now with a review like that few audiophiles would buy it. But lets say an audiophile takes a chance and buys a pair. He listens to it for a few months and decides its not quite right...
PLC speaker does not manage to sell enough pairs to continue operating and closes down a few years down the line.
Now this is a hypothetical situation but this is EXACTLY what could happen even if the PERFECT speaker came along and put on the market. Unfortunately there is a saying which seems applicable that you should not cast pearls before swine.
If the speakers had a beautiful gloss finish, were priced at $50K a pair and was sent out to all the high end dealers, and all the youtube reviewers were paid to provide excellent reviews, then it would be a totally different story.
And therein lies the problem with perfect speakers.
You need perfect audiophiles that understand perfect sound before you bother inventing perfect speakers. End of story.
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@kenjit I just posted this in response to Kenjit on another thread… Late to the party here but…Great musicians playing amazingly beautiful sounding music do not play in spherical inert halls. One of the worlds Best Sounding Halls is the BSO (Boston Symphony Hall). Basically a wooden box …like my Cornwall IV speakers. Kenjit lives in a hell of his own making. He thinks he is the warden..in reality he is one of the oldest and most forgotten inmates in the bowels of the asylum. |
Its easy to crack on Kenjit, but in the end, he is just like the rest of us seeking his own perfection. He has communicated with me at length about designing and tuning parts that he has for a speaker build. He has quality components and has a good idea of what he wants to achieve. Unfortunately, he lives across the Ocean from me and to do what he ask, I would need his drivers or at least very accurate detailed measurements to design the very specific curves that he wants to achieve. Kenjit is easy to slam because of his comments, but overall, he is out there chasing the dream like everyone else. |
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