Here's constructive dialogue for you:I'd love to see one of you [this is an invitation] actually construct a healthy dialog that leads to a productive outcome. Again, here's my side of things...
Amir Majidimehr of Audio Science Review published flawed measurements placing my work and abilities in a false light.
The FACTS are Amir Majidimehr refuses to suspend or modify his unsolicited review of my work as of April 10th, 2024. Amir measured our loudspeaker from the wrong angle and he published a flawed frequency response and step response. The correct listening axis for this loudspeaker is directly on-axis [an entirely different angle] with the 8” woofer. The result is a much better frequency response than Amir is publicly conveying and an ideal step response; a step response that reflects the speaker is ‘time-aligned’. Amir's impedance measurement is also flawed and reflects the supplied feet were not used and with no provisions to plug four 1/4 - 20 threaded inserts resulting in him publishing a flawed impedance measurement, flawed distortion measurements, flawed cumulative spectral decay, and lowered bass output in the frequency response measurements due to internal cabinet pressure losses.
Amir’s picture of the Mini Lore reflects the speaker in the air (6 inches off the ground) with no feet being used to maintain proper internal cabinet pressure. His picture also reflects a sun bleached woofer calling into question just how old this speaker might be. The Mini Lore has been in production for 15 years and the speaker he’s using looks visually compromised.
Amir Majidimehr's fumbled measurements caused him to draw conclusions that produced false narratives regarding our loudspeakers performance and my work.
The Mini Lore has a solid cabinet containing internal bracing within; when you see a resonance that big at 180Hz there’s only one logical explanation… there must be a hole or a hidden cavity in the cabinet. Amir failed to discern this. Amir failed to plug the threaded inserts in the bottom of the cabinet and the result cast a negative light on the speaker. Why do we use threaded inserts with a hole through the cabinet? To make it more versatile for isolation feet and outriggers and to allow for the speaker to be perfectly leveled.
In my opinion, Amir Majidimehr should have been more amiable to suspending or modifying his review when I informed him weeks back there were problems.
I feel blindsided by Amir Majidimehr. I believe he owes me a personal and a public apology. I believe Amir Majidimehr should be doing everything in his power to rectify this problem.
Respectfully,
Eric Alexander
Audio Designer
President
Tekton Design, LLC
The time you've spent here in this forum, could have easily been spent sending Amir new speakers and the appropriate feet for them. The shipping costs, both ways, would have cost less than the time you've spent here and any money you may/may not have spent on legal council. As the president of your company and an audio designer, I'm assuming you make AT LEAST as much money as I do, and as such, you've wasted literally hundreds of dollars ruining your reputation with the readers of ASR and watchers of EAC.
Had you just invested that same money into shipping Amir a new set of speakers for testing, you would have ended up in a better situation than you're in now. You'd have converted new fans because you'd have produced a quality product, and you wouldn't lose consumers by resorting to legal threats when objective reviews don't show your product in a way that you feel is representative.
At the end of the day, data is data. Amir's data is the only objective data we have on the M-Lore, we still don't have yours. You haven't sent Amir a different sample to update his measurements with. And finally, we have the data that when someone says something about your product, whether subjective or objective, you resort to legal threats. I don't know about you, but a manufacturer that habitually resorts to legal threats with public figures would make me leery of doing business with them, because if that's how they act with public figures, how are they going to treat their customers behind closed doors?
So, if you ACTUALLY wanted a constructive dialogue, and not to just play the martyr, there's constructive feedback for you.