@ditusa The article written by Doug Blackburn exudes confidence and it sounds plausible, but I disagree with a good portion of his assertions due to my experience. "Listen to a subwoofer all by itself for a while. You won’t hear anything vaguely resembling speed coming from that slow, soggy-sounding, plodding subwoofer. It has no detail and no speed whatsoever when heard all by itself."
I’ve done this with different subwoofers and they sound different. The SVS SB2000’s perceived quality of rapidity vs slowness changed significantly when changing its power cable with those of different materials and constructions. I started a discussion thread here about it some time ago.
The way I see it, the audio hobby is really about listening. Some people can detect differences just by listening, so they don’t rely on concepts so much, just like some people who can see clearly at very far distances don’t need corrective lenses. Some people don’t have the ear/brain training/gift/whatever to perceive as acutely, so they rely more on measurementation and abstraction. This is the primary basis for my system building, and the reason I disagree with the author.
I’ll give the other article a read today. I think it’s more up my alley.