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First, #2 is straight up false. For #1, it would be true if a room acted as a linear transfer function. Since it is not, measurements could give you negative (that is, entirely wrong) information (#3). #4: the most valuable information is in CES 2034.While I also find JA's logic weird, in my mind:
1. If all the speakers are measured in the same room at the same place in the same way, relative comparisons become possible, even if not as pure as an anechoic / Spinorama / Jupiter room set up
2. We all listen in real rooms, anyway, where results below Schroeder dominate, so anechoic results are only semi-applicable in real life, anyway.
3. I'd rather have some speaker measurements than zero
4. We're not trying to publish AES papers or do speaker design
Again, the limitations of in-room aren't stopping Stereophile from publishing in room measurements and I don't see them getting crap for doing so.
Similarly, non-standardized headphone measurements will do the same (as pertained to a different thread).