Very good. Hopefully you read and understood the entire post from Amir, which was actually in his F35 review.
Hopefully I did.
amirm said:My location for speaker testing is in one corner of my room. That is emphasizing bass modes.
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As it is, speakers with more bass get penalized. With my Revel Salon 2 tested the same way, the peak at 102 Hz was even higher requiring more gain reduction.
That's the whole explanation. Nothing more, nothing less.
preload said:This is what people need to get into their heads - just because the so-called measurements suggest a speaker SHOULD sound good, it doesn't necessarily mean that it actually will.
But it does sound good. It wasn't the speaker causing the problems. It was the room. A speaker that's immune to room modes doesn't exist.
It didn't affect the M16 as much because R3, F35 and Salon 2 all have deeper bass. It's really that simple.
If anything, it's a very good example of how unreliable subjective opinions can be.
edit: I don't know why, but this thread made me think of this scene.
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