Newman
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…It just seems to me that with the tools we have today, a consumer who really cares about sound quality would probably get a subwoofer and be willing to EQ so part of me wonders why I should focus on regular preference score. …
I think that argument falls apart when we consider beyond 2-channel. And the consumers you refer to as “really caring about sound quality” are also crippling themselves if they don’t go multi-channel, so let’s take multi-channel seriously. And when we go multi-channel, there is no readily available way to get accurate EQ on all channels.). So I think the scores unequalised are very useful to us.
(even with 2 channels, “being willing to EQ” is not the same as being savvy enough to measure your own speakers competently, which woud be far preferable to relying on a published measurement of the same model of speaker and trusting that your sample has exactly the same measurements…just ask a photographer if every sample of a lens has the same measurements, and ask a loudspeaker driver manufacturer if every sample of a driver has the same measurements, or every sample of a crossover, most of which use +/- 10 or 20% tolerance capacitors…or save some time and believe me when I say you need to test your own lenses, and speakers)