14% List

[Selah Audio]

Is there a list of the speakers that didn't meet the ride- or-die Harman litmus test?

 

[Sancus]

I have not seen any of the speakers in the study identified by brand/model, but people keep interpreting the 0.86 correlation coefficient in that way and it really doesn't mean that 86% were accurate and 14% inaccurate, it's a statistical statement of how closely the set of measured scores depart from the predicted ones.

I scanned the graph in the study and put the data here. It's not really that exciting, though, most of the big outliers are predicted-bad speakers that were given more forgiving(but still average or bad) scores by listeners. The only really interesting one is the highest outlier above a score of 5, which was rated 8.2 by listeners but given 6.6 by the preference formula.

 

[Selah Audio]

I have not seen any of the speakers in the study identified by brand/model, but people keep interpreting the 0.86 correlation coefficient in that way and it really doesn't mean that 86% were accurate and 14% inaccurate, it's a statistical statement of how closely the set of measured scores depart from the predicted ones.

I scanned the graph in the study and put the data here. It's not really that exciting, though, most of the big outliers are predicted-bad speakers that were given more forgiving(but still average or bad) scores by listeners. The only really interesting one is the highest outlier above a score of 5, which was rated 8.2 by listeners but given 6.6 by the preference formula.

Thanks - I was just wondering what attributes were had by the speakers that didn't meet the expected results from their measurements. I've always wondered what non-Harman speakers scored well.

 

[RayDunzl]

Is there a list of the speakers that didn't meet the ride- or-die Harman litmus test?

There will be more when some different designs are measured.

Mine would surely fail.

 

[Selah Audio]

There will be more when some different designs are measured.

Mine would surely fail.

Their focus was obviously on conventional forward-firing monopole systems. I've always wondered how a good dipole or line array would fare in their test.