People on this board miss represent the research imo
The reason Harman took that research project on was because it could help them sell speakers into a practical market space not audiophile market space or treated room market space.
If you have a heavily treated room and you are educated in room acoustics and maybe you have some software you don't need an expensive Harman speaker.
There's so much misapplied science here it boggles my mind.
The Harman search was all about selling speakers into home environments.
That's the dollar they were chasing, not ultimate performance if that was the case the enclosures would have been different and it all would have been different.
The reason Harman took that research project on was because it could help them sell speakers into a practical market space not audiophile market space or treated room market space.
If you have a heavily treated room and you are educated in room acoustics and maybe you have some software you don't need an expensive Harman speaker.
There's so much misapplied science here it boggles my mind.
The Harman search was all about selling speakers into home environments.
That's the dollar they were chasing, not ultimate performance if that was the case the enclosures would have been different and it all would have been different.