@temps
Fair enough. There are dozens of forums where only subjective impressions matter. If it bothers you that ASR is mostly about science this is obviously not the right place for you.
The site and its users are two different things. I measured, listened, tweaked then measured again because I was making damn sure the speakers cleared every bar, objective and subjective, and that I wasn't being swayed by anything else -- because the LYDs look amazing and I wanted to love them, I knew some bias was creeping in. The measurement mic wasn't going to be affected by that though. I found the spectogram very clearly showed "spikes" in the response of my old monitors that were absent in my measure of the Dynaudios. What did I get?
Correlation isn't causation. There's already much data pointing to resonances being at most minor if they don't show up in the power response.
edit: and it's totally understandable that my opinion is being discounted because hey, I'm a totally random guy with no track record. It's my bad that I expect to be taken seriously when I do the exact same to most other people.
Wasn't talking about you, you are setting the standard we all should be striving for. I stuck to the facts wherever possible and made no outlandish claims. Trying to help a guy out who had a tight timeframe, who wasn't entirely happy with his options, by making a simple recommendation of a speaker he'll probably be able to find on short notice because Dyn enjoys pretty good distribution.Huh? Did you ignore what i do in the review? I listen and those listening impressions are consistent with what I read in your last few pages. I noted lack of power in both Neumann and Genelec and scored them down appropriately. The preference scores are not part of my reviews either.
If you think there is a better speaker either objectively or subjectively, send it in for testing. Until then, you are offering an opinion which has far, far less value than what we do here. You may think your opinion is correct but they are dime a dozen online. Everyone seemingly likes everything online -- good or bad.
It brought out a squadron of naysayers who had nothing else to offer. 20 posts later we finally got one (Kali IN-8). My mistake for trying to help - won't be making that mistake again. I'm in Canada and need the LYDs for work so I won't be able to send them in.
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