DSJR
Major Contributor
I wish I was still able to regularly (daily) compare different speakers with the knowledge I have acquired in recent years and past experience of demonstrating so many speakers (admittedly lower cost ones than current high end). It seems that dispersion/directivity can make or break a domestic speaker-room interface. Knowing what I feel I know now, I'd love to compare say, a JBL 305 or similar wide-dispersion model with maybe a Neumann 80 or whatever, the latter seeming to have controlled but not as wide hf dispersion if I have it right. In my case, the fact these two are active may well be so much better than my rather old fashioned passives, that the dispersion will be secondary (I'm well beyond hearing hisssssss from tweeters beyond say a few cm away now 
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