That’s all very interesting, I do recall reading the thread in real time here about getting clarification from Klipple about whether their system, software, produced data in line with what the draft of the standard was going to be and how to provide input. Seems like a decade ago but probably 5 or 6.We were the first organization to aggressively put the standard to use, generating CEA-2034 reports (and debugging the spec!). Prior to that, we had some done by Audioholics but they were not in full form as we do (they don't include low frequency response due to outdoor measurements). This substantially broadened understanding of this work and this style of measurements. Prior to this, only "those of us in know" knew about this work and further, lacked actual measurements across wide range of speakers we wanted to buy.
My question was more basic, when USER said “its” did he mean Harman, or was there separate research by ASR (the collective) on this. If there was I was going to take a deeper dive. Your response answered that you took it as Harman research.
If it was Harman (Spinorama) then I was going to ask USER why popularizing the standard (if I understood him correctly), resulted in Harman “being cold” towards ASR which I would have thought would be the opposite. (Being that Dr. Toole’s “life’s work” was Spinorama measurements (first published in 1985 when he was still at NRC), refined at Harman/JBL, confirmed and correlated by Dr. Olive at NRC, further refined and end up being embraced at ASR in a practical way for consumers.
I was trying to see if if I read that right.
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