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Do not choose speakers by reading reviews

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Rather than reading reviews ; Find out who designed the speakers and under what conditions.
 

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I suppose it might be helpful to know if the designers used an anechoic chamber/ Klippel or if they just tweaked it 'by ear' and so ended up with a mess.
 

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John Bau designed a speaker. He was trying to replace LS3/5a speakers. Do I want it or not? Do you want it or not?

He designed another speaker. He was making it for domestic living room systems. Do I or you want it or not?
 
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I don't know the people that design the speakers and frankly, I don't care as long as the speakers measure well. :p Unless you mean "child labor" when you say "under what conditions", but I don't think Genelec has a bunch of sweat shops full of kids & Klippels.
 

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Genelec's people work in a really nice place in front of a lake. Do you mean this kind of conditions?
By what conditions, I mean what market conditions or corporate decisions, rather then their own criteria. I am sure Genelec must be great but they are designed for small studio mixing rooms. In other words, headphones at a near distance.
 

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By what conditions, I mean what market conditions or corporate decisions, rather then their own criteria. I am sure Genelec must be great but they are designed for small studio mixing rooms. In other words, headphones at a near distance.
How do we find this out then? Please don't say the company's website /press release /hifi press.
 

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By what conditions, I mean what market conditions or corporate decisions, rather then their own criteria. I am sure Genelec must be great but they are designed for small studio mixing rooms. In other words, headphones at a near distance.
Genelecs are designed for headphone listening? This is getting more interesting. :)

btw, Genelec publishes a table of optimal listening distances for each speaker, so I wouldn't generalize.
 

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By what conditions, I mean what market conditions or corporate decisions, rather then their own criteria. I am sure Genelec must be great but they are designed for small studio mixing rooms. In other words, headphones at a near distance.

You're kidding, right?



Would make an 800lb headphone...
 

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So if designed for any particular price point or a particular country's audio market, this relates how particularly to what you're looking for? Where's this master reference of what the designers were asked to work with?
 

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