the paradox of accurate speakers

Accurate is a loose term, and it needs to be, for many reasons. One reason is acoustics which play to large a role in what we hear when music is played back in our listening rooms.

Even the same "accurate speakers" sound quite different in different rooms...or even, different locations in the same room.

Even using matched speakers in a multichannel system shows this if you take a measurement of each speaker.

Fairly accurate is about all you can hope for, even with a so called "accurate speaker". (unless you live in a perfect world).

Dave

Hello, Hi Shadorne I just wanted to make a small correction on the 2001 reference. The large black monolithic slab is just that, a monolith. An obelisk is a "tall. four sided stone pillar tapering towards its pyramidal top". A monolith is a "single large block or piece of stone". While a obelisk is a single large piece of stone the 2001 monolith is not obelisk shaped.
Sorry to correct you on such a trivial detail, but I do have the 2001 monolith designed Acoustat 6, which are "something like a monolith in size, unity of structure or purpose , unyielding quality" thankfully they are not made of stone!

Definitions from the New World Dictionary in quotes.

"Spaceship Orion is here waiting to part the air above you, waiting to take you"
Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Bob

Tennis, I'm having a hard time understanding if you're talking about accurate musical reproduction or if you're talking about a speaker accurately using the electricity coming into it...

Accuracy of musical reproduction can only take place in a (hypothetical) vacuum. As soon as room colorations, source anomalies, signal loss at each connection, poor equipment design and a hundred other issues come into play there is no such thing as an accurate speaker.

There is no accurate input, how can there be accurate output?

pbb, I'm stunned at your comments!!! You poo poo those who demand measurements, but in other posts spew venom upon those who have heard what you cannot!?! I am seriously, literally stunned...

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p.s. my system is better than yours!

p.s. my system is better than yours!

but Bob doesn't care even if yours does sound great (no doubt it does), because Bob's sounds good too AND, to top it off, Bob's is WAY bigger than both you and MrTennis and mine combined!! LOL ;-)

hi nrchy:

accurate is defined as input=output, where input is the recording and output is that which is produced by the speaker.

you are correct in that perfection does not exist. the sound of an instrument reproduced by a stereo system is timbrally inaccurate and a stereo system does not exactly reproduce the input.

the intent of this thread is to suggest that two so-called accurate spekers, as defined by input=output may sound different.