This thread is a beta test for the interactive table of speakers reviews (the electronics one is just around the corner, delayed by sheer size). It’s easier to keep speakers and electronics in two separate tables fed by separate sheets. They’ll be maintained in a finalized Master Review Index when they’re done.
I’ll start a separate thread for the beta version of the Master Measurements Chart somewhat later, around the end of February. That’s still a work in progress and much more involved given the types of comparisons we want to have at the ready.
The table works best fullscreen on desktops, but I tested it halfscreen, on a tablet and my phone. The scrolling is responsive enough and since each line item is unique clicking anywhere will to take you to the linked review. iOS seems to handle it just fine.
Despite that horizontal real estate still is at a serious premium, so the sortable aspects I didn’t include as columns can be selected through filters. You can also pop open a tooltip with a little summary of the tested unit by hovering your mouse over the blue box on the far right-hand side.
Suggestions, complaints, better ideas?
Master Review Index (beta): Speakers
Preference scores are taken from
@MZKM's
thread. See his other initial
thread for an explanation of how the ratings are calculated.
@amirm's
review of the JBL Control 1 Pro and JBL 305P Mk2 has an in-depth explanation of how speaker measurements are performed and their interpretation.
A full end-to-end explanation of speaker measurements, their relationship to what you hear and the value of preference scores is found in Floyd Toole’s book
Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms, 3rd ed. (2017).
The table itself can be found through this link:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?pages/SpeakerTestData/
Master Review Index: Electronics (under construction)
Companion beta test for all electronics. Currently delayed.