Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph?

@seanheis1 Wrote:

Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph?

Yes, my speakers came with graphs! For power handling, sensitivity, impedance, crossover frequency, efficiency, directivity, dispersion, power linearity, distortion, ect..😎

Mike

Meh.  As a person with 3 measurement mic's in his house, I wouldn't trust the speaker maker's measurements to begin with, and don't think most would interpret them correctly, and what good is a quasi anechoic (or fully anechoic) measurement when it comes to my room?

I'd much rather see off-axis frequency plots as done by Stereophile and others, as well as dynamic range plots.

I would not be interested...

PS - So long as you accurately publish the methodology you use to measure I don’t see a problem, even if that method is non-standard.

Now, coming to poor conclusions based on measurements, that's kind of ASR's bag.  😂

Eric at Tekton Designs has been battling two different reviewers who have posted measurements without his permission, using Klippel devices for their respective measurements.

So what? They posted measurements without Eric’s blessing/approval? Oh the horror! It’s a free country dude so comes with the territory. Other “manufacturers” (ehem) get by just fine without threatening litigation except for, uh, Bose. Go figure.

I’d really like to see an impedance graph along with phase angles. A frequency response graph doesn’t mean squat if my amp can’t adequately drive the speakers. Nominal impedance??? C’mon man.