Initially I didn't compare them and tought they sounded really 'muddy'. When I visited my parent I tried the speakers there and still had the same impression. Did an unscientific test comparing it to their speakers (cheap 2-way sony 4-5 inch bookshelf) and that sounded better in the mid/high frequencies but didnt have the extension or body the mechano23's have. I suspected some resonance so I set them up next to the salon and crossed them over at 50hz to a sub using a minidsp SHD. Did some in room MMM measurement and indeed found a strong peak around 300hz. I want to find out if that is a room mode or a cabinet resonance of some sort since it's also in amirs THD measurement. But I've not had the time to check
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I then knocked the highest peaks down using some EQ (in the graph below also the top end of the mechano23 is eq'ed to tilt a little less downward to try to match the 'openness' of the salon, unfortunatly I don't have a measurement saved with only the peaks knocked down) resulting in the following:
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The sound of the mechano23 was MUCH cleaner now! Sound was really well balanced tonality wise. Yet the salon2 sounded way more open/detailed. I then tried to tilt the high frequency a bit up on the Mechano23 to try if I could match that open/detailed character of the salon. It semi worked. There was more detail now but ofcourse the tonal balance was now completly off and it didnt sound natural anymore. So my initial conclusion is that when the peak/resonance is taken care of the sound is good and balanced. yet it lacks open/detailed sound compared to the salon2. I'm not sure if this is due to the wider dispersion of the salon. I noticed that a lot of highly regarded speakers have an estimated in room response that gradially declines to about 2kh and then turns to flat. I added some examples below:
F226BE:
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Salon2:
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Blade2 meta:
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