It is fact. It fails to accommodate significant and long-established advances in speaker dispersion and the perceptual effects of dispersion. I don't seek to apologise for regressive design disguised as high performance.
Alan has made the observation/invitation below. Would you or others help me make a list of the right “probing questions”? The thing is, they have to be factual, friendly, and in good faith, I think, as opposed to leading. For instance, a question referencing that psychoacoustic research and asking if the wide baffle is the right design choice.
Alan is unusual in that he risks alienating his audience by calling out what he believes are nonsense claims by other vendors, particularly amplifier manufacturers. I really like that (@March Audio is another). But I’m all in favor of identifying where he is sailing too close to the wind, if that’s the case. In any event, it would be interesting.
Here is Alan, in the “Just how reliable are human senses” thread:
The really disappointing thing is that audio is a very mature business. All the basics were appreciated and substantially understood when our grandparents were youngsters, but has been largely forgotten. The knowledge gap between those of us on the inside of the game and those of you on the outside is immense: and that void ensures that consumers do not ask probing, awkward questions of manufacturers, who are experts at spinning a yarn and pickpocketing the consumer.
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