As a consumer (and technical operative) I am baffled by the technical review in this forum of the Klipsch RP-600M and the review by Steve Guttenberg who is a well-respected audiophile reviewer who has reviewed 100's if not more) speakers. I understand the audio results of these speakers in the review on this site but why is there such a disconnect between the review here and the review by Steve Guttenberg? I imagine Steve relies on his ears for a review and that is influenced by the room, the amplifier and the position of the reviewer for the outcome.
Simplest explanation is that Steve creates informercials for companies, masquerading as reviews. He likes everything he reviews. He is good on camera and comes across and sincere and trustworthy. But there is no factual foundation to what he does. FYI I have tested nearly 200 speakers so if he has only done 100, I am double that!
Of note, he has no formal engineering or listener training. Reviewers like him were tested formally and did very poorly:
Above graph says that they have a hard time agreeing with themselves when evaluating the sound of speakers in blind tests.
My approach is different in that I measure and that measurement tells us a ton as to whether someone will like their results. The testing showed this on the left:
You have a wide trough in the response which means what you hear is colored that way. Now, like the college students, reviewers and sales people, it doesn't mean that you will hear such an impression with ad-hoc testing. In a controlled test however, you will prefer a speaker without such a hole.
Net, net, don't judge what we do with what another reviewer is doing. There is a proper way to do this, and there is an entertaining way. The former is what we do.