As per forum policy can you please give a decent summary about the video.
I think I'll step in here, since the OP here and the interviewer seem to be well out of their comfort zones...
Klipsch is not known to measure the best. Why?
Answer: On the LF, how you measure makes a difference, for instance, the Klipschorn is measured in 1/8th space, anechoically.
[To those that have never talked to Roy Delgado before, he's actually beginning to answer the question, but he's answering it this way: how to you measure a corner-loaded loudspeaker? The answer to that question actually calls into question all measurements of loudspeakers in rooms. But the interviewer looks like he isn't experienced enough to know what just occurred.]
But Is there not a standard way to measure speakers?
Answer: Yes, but that isn't necessarily the way to measure a corner-loaded speaker. The first loudspeakers were all horn-loaded, and typically, corner-loaded. Once direct radiator sealed systems began to come out, that kind of cut out a lot of the complexity of designing a loudspeaker, but people tended to always go the easy route, or what they're most comfortable with. When the majority of the speakers began to go that way, there is a very typical way to measure that. [cut in the video stream--so we don't know what Roy said after that...] We've also tended to get away from specifying how we measure the systems, for example, the La Scala...
I will say, yes, there were some things that showed anomalies in the frequency response that are there. But here's the other thing, too, our philosophy starts off with high efficiency, that's our #1, and in this order, Paul would tell me,
1) high efficiency (because it gives you low distortion),
2) controlled coverage (understanding how you're spewing energy into your room), then we're looking at power response, and
3) the last one, (the way Paul said it), controlled frequency response.
In order to measure to give you flat power response, what's more important a flat frequency response or a flat power response? From our perspective, a flat power response.
It's like, I need to take a course to understand the difference...
Answer: The biggest difference is, in a room, you don't have the energy being absorbed, it bounces back at you, so if you look at that perspective, because it does affect how you hear. And that's how you get room loading...
[another video cut, that we don't know what was said...]
So each room is different, so what do you use as a standard?
Answer: for us, that's why controlled coverage is important, because if you decide to keep the energy in this space [he moves hands around to gesture the room's volume], the room begins to affect it less and less.
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That gets you out to minute 5+ in the video. There is, apparently, a lot more that Roy said, and most troublingly the most important segue in the interview appears to have been cut out of the video (unfortunately).
Chris
www.soundandvision.com
