I think we are putting the cart before the horse here. You need to write the paper you want, and then edit to fit the journal format/requirements.
A lot of journals have a "proposal" process don't they? You submit more of an outline rather than write an entire paper and get feedback and proceed from there? AES for conference papers seemed to be soliciting "proposals".
And if it's science, then attempt to do some science. What specific conclusions can be made from ASR data? For instance, floorstander speakers are always advertised as full-range speakers. What % of those tested actually meet this claim, within -3db @ 20 Hz?
You sort of hit the nail on the head with that example. What is "science" for purposes of a J. AES paper? Respectfully, is your example even "science"? Testing the speakers in accordance with scientific/professional standards is science, but it is established science. (Klippel is a Silver Medal recipient from AES and has published numerous articles in their journal relating to new methods of testing transducers and speakers). "Full range" is science, but established long ago. So testing speakers to see what their true bottom end is, that isn't really new science appropriate for publication is it? Assuming it is "archival" (of significant interest to members) as required by AES, like the directivity index database paper I quoted above, the fact that test results don't meet manufacturer specifications isn't science is it? (I'm sincerely asking, because it seems to be more "commerciality" which is frowned upon by AES in their publication guidelines).
I understand that was probably a quick example to give, but this seems to me to be the crux of the problem. The way the testing data and reviews are discussed in this Forum is using science to obtain objective data for consumers to evaluate and to also factor in specifications and price. That's probably not going to get published in a professional journal by AES, IEEE, etc.
However, the data that has been obtained in all of the testing can be reshaped into something that would be accepted and published by those types of journals, the key is finding out what they consider to be of interest to their "membership." That is something I am struggling with and can only offer examples of what has been accepted in the past.
For example, here is a fairly recent paper given as a presentation regarding a new method of speaker testing relating to distortion. As someone suggested earlier if we can help
@amirm find a paper, any paper, that he can build upon, go the next step, connect the dots, with his data (speakers, dacs, amps,
speaker wire, whatever) that gets your foot in the door and a much greater chance of being accepted, just like the example below did. I have attached the actual article because it is an AES "open-acess" paper.
The introduction doesn't contain any references/citations where I thought it should, I guess their discussion about distortion testing in loudspeakers is just so well-established it doesn't require any. They do sort of have a string of references at one point (2 - 7) which are these:
[3] Fielder, L. D. and Benjamin, E. M., “Subwoofer Performance for Accurate Reproduction of Mu-
sic,” J. Audio Eng. Soc, 36(6), pp. 443–456, 1988.
[4] Keele Jr., D. B., “Development of Test Signals for the EIA-426-B Loudspeaker Power Rating
Compact Disk,” in Audio Engineering Society Convention 111, 2001.
[5] Voishvillo, A., “Measurements and Perception of Nonlinear Distortion—Comparing Numbers and
Sound Quality,” in Audio Engineering Society
Convention 123, 2007.
[6]Starobin,B.,“CEA-2010:StandardMethodof MeasurementforPoweredSubwoofers,”2010. [7]Temme,S.andBrunet,P.,“ANewMethodfor MeasuringDistortionUsingaMultitoneStimulus andNoncoherence,”J.AudioEng.Soc,56(3),pp. 176–188,2008.

Aside from frequency response, loudspeaker distortion measurements are perhaps the most commonly used metrics to appraise loudspeaker performance. Unfortunately the stimuli utilized for many types of distortion measurements are not complex waveforms such as music or speech, thus the measured distortion characteristics of the DUT may not typically reflect the performance of the device when reproducing usual program material. To this end, the topic of this paper will be the exploration of a new multi-tone sequence stimulus to measure loudspeaker system distortion. This method gives a reliable estimation of the average nonlinear distortion produced with music on a loudspeaker system and delivers a global objective assessment of the distortion for a DUT in normal use case.
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Authors: Brunet, Pascal; Decanio, William; Banka, Ritesh; Yuan, Shenli
Affiliations: Samsung Research America, Valencia, CA USA; Audio Group - Digital Media Solutions; Samsung Research America, Valencia, CA, USA; Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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AES Convention: 143 (October 2017) Paper Number: 9827
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