Spinoroma is very misleading in what's the better measuring speaker. It gives high scores to speakers that only have constant direcitivty in the higher frequencies and that arent broadband constant, and it disregards how a speaker interacts with the room in regard to boundaries. And then there are areas like IMD distortion, coherency/time domain behaviour, thermal compression, etc. which it also ignores.
The result is that you can have a speaker that scores lower in a spinorama vs another but ends up measuring much more even when it's placed in an actual room. And also be better in other audible and important areas compared to the one that scored higher.
I believe spinorama.org is not "
very misleading". You would like it to be so you could convince people that your way is better and sell your speakers.
What is spinorama.org?
- a collection of speaker measurements freely available either as a website or a database
- it covers a large fraction of the common speakers and provides reasonable data.
- it does allow you to sort speakers by various metrics (harmann score included) -- you are all educated enough to know the limitation of this scoring method and any scoring method btw that rely on only one parameter.
What spinorama.org is not?
- a website that is trying to sell you something
- a website that pretend that more expensive is better
- a website that have a perfect methodology for ranking speakers
And honestly, if you want high SPL you buy a large speaker. Nobody expect a 4 inches speaker to have the same output of a 15 inches. And yes I know you can play with a DSP. It would be great if
@amirm and Erin would release more data for each speaker but they don't.
We all agree that you can get better results in room with speakers that optimise for it, you can also do it with a DSP. This speakers are usually large and expensive and they are definitely not interior friendly and they must represent strictly less than 1% of the market.
What does best mean btw? best portable speaker? best speaker under 200$? best speaker for a party? best speaker for optimised PIR without a dsp?
There are plenty of excellent speakers out there, all the top speakers wrt score are good (and sound close to each other), output is more or less a function of the size.
Personal opinion: amp and dacs are transparent for decades, speakers are getting very good, the only thing that really make a difference is the room and the integration with the speakers either via dsp or via "smartly designed" speakers ala
@Bjorn.
I have fixed the DNS (now there is an entry for spinorama.org (without
www.) and http or https requests should be redirected to
https://www.spinorama.org.
@kma100 Please let me know if that doesn't work. The DNS change can take some time to propagate.