On-wall installation won’t change much except that the on-axis response will become very similar to that of the sound power.Thank you for your review Amir, and the measurements. It is very instructive for people who are able to interpret the measurements, their strengths and limitations.
However, I wonder if a better way would be to measure it in its typical use case. If this is a speaker designed for under bench mounting, under a TV, or wall mounting below or above a TV, is it possible to measure and review it as such?
The measurements may be better, or even worse, and sound better or sound worse.
I do agree that this makes it an outlier and cannot be compared to the other measurements which are measured in the far field / 4pi environment, and thus a disadvantage or downside of testing as such.
But if the review is helpful people for making purchase decision for buying a small shallow speaker for use with a TV, is is very helpful in its own right.
I don’t not expect you to change your mind, and I understand reasons for testing using a standard dose protocol, but I feel this testing may somewhat disadvantage this speaker, particularly as the measurement will appear on other websites; and this the context may not be included, like you have thoughtful tone.
I, for one, would like to know how these under or over the TV or on-wall speakers compare to each others, which seems to be in every big box store, and what many general consumers are buying these days.
Please consider.
We don’t know whether that psychoacoustically changes things as no research has been done on that particular use case before.