cool article on speaker performance testing

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cool article on speaker performance testing

Postby krabapple » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:25 pm

from Test & Measurement World, covering Floyd Toole (speaker development god of Harman/JBL) and his work on correlating speaker measurements to subjective quality assessement.



http://www.reed-electronics.com/tmworld ... 75937.html
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Postby krabapple » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:46 am

ThomH might get a kick out of this.

Over on RAHE i posted a pointer to the Test & Meaurement article, which spawned an interesting
discussion. The most impassioned 'con' came from Gary Eickmeier, a RAHE semi-reg who's not a tweako nut but who *is* one of hte few audiophiles who likes Bose 901s and the Bose philisophy. He lit into what he thought was the Harman 'engineer-think' regarding speakers...eliciting a reply from Sean Olive himself.
(Olive and Floyd Toole are the two speaker gurus at Harman/JBL's multichannel speaker lab, one of the few facilities able to conduct large-scale blind comparisons of speakers).

It's rare to see replies to Usenet posts from this level of rebuttal-space ;>

RAHE thread on speaker testing
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Postby thomh » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:46 am

Thanks for the heads-up, Krab!

And here is one back atcha:

"high frequency transients" fallacy
Thom