They have two tweeters, therefore they must sound bright. Just like cable, copper sounds warm (reddish color), silver more bright (shiny color). Analog warm, digital cold. And so on.
That downward tilt is the in room by the way, if a speaker measures flat anechoically and has fairly even off axis response it will be a downward trend in room. So an in room downward trend does not by itself indicate a dark speaker, although it may indicate that if the trend is severe and depending on the dispersion character of the unit.
The speakers were designed to sell at a low price in as many mass market retailers as possible and often to buyers with a very limited education in audio.
A little tiny tweeter makes a lot of sense to me if implemented to maintain wide dispersion up above, oh, maybe 7k, where most tweeters start to narrow their dispersion. In this case they didn't do an exceptional job with the dispersion characteristics. I don't know where they crossed that tweeter over but if it's way up above 10K I agree they could have left it out. I can't hear past 16kHz last I checked. Might be lower now.
There are many designs that would work better from a purely hifi standpoint, especially with a different design budget.
These txt files, Im not able to use these in Roon am I? I have conv files .wav files. Wondering what I can do with these, too many to manually enter. Thanks.2 times EQ difference curves hanged on below thanks
Another example: i had infinity alpha 20s ( basically il10s) , i presently have some infinity crescendo3006s, i would bet money the alpha's measure better based on the il 10 measurements.. The crescendos are much better sounding imo...i had some of the sony core books for a couple months a while back, they weren't "headless panther" bad imo.... I actually liked them at the price point...
What device is this EQ?
The main reason for those unnormal high scores is that they were now calculated on spinoramas of back then which were strongly smoothed, not that they measure so well, so this cannot be used as an argument.
I was using AudioHijack on my Mac mini to do that EQ. It gives me accesss to the AudioUnits built in to Mac OS. I was specifically using the AU NBandEQ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/audiotoolbox/1389965-aunbandeq_filter_types.
One thing I notice about these preferences is that they are well supported but far from unanimous. So if you are designing a speaker that you hope will appeal to the largest number of listeners you should pay very close attention to those target measurements. If you are buying, you still should pay attention to them but ultimately you're going to have to listen for yourself in your own room and see what your long term enjoyment level is. The Revel M16 was having a strange effect on me, sounding amazingly good but also somehow giving me the impression that my room was over damped. I was playing them very loud to overcome that perception. I pulled them way into the room away from the walls to give them more space. I thought maybe they were too tight in the directional control so I tested that by playing my much more directional horns in the room. That wasn't it because I liked the horns better. I tried EQ to boost the top end but I didn't get that to work. Now that I've got this new amp I'm tempted to give those Revels a try again, just to see if the amp has anything to do with it. It seems to work nicely with the Sonys. So it's weird that I percieve the Revels as sounding great but I'm strugglling to be comfortable with them at the same time.
