Hank Nova
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My main speakers are a pair of JBL 4429 studio monitors.
I have moved these speakers hundreds of times over the past two years.
I have had them in positions that made them downright terrible, to just ok, to amazingly awesome. All with the same equipment, in the same room.
The only variable that changed was speaker position and listening position.
I'm saying all of this to bring up the problem with reading subjective speaker reviews. If I can have such an incredibly diverse array of experiences with just a single pair of speakers in my room, how can I know that a reviewer has optimally positioned the speakers under review? Even if he has, how can I know if my acoustic space is even comparable to the reviewer's?
To emphasize, pulling my JBLs 6 feet from the rear wall as opposed to 2 feet, completely alters tonal balance and soundstaging. It is like a completely different set of speakers. Some positions make them brighter than hell. Some positions make them dark and dull. Some positions the bass slams. Some positions the bass sounds anemic.
These wildly varying results have killed my interest in speaker reviews, almost entirely.
Any discussion on this topic is welcome.
I have moved these speakers hundreds of times over the past two years.
I have had them in positions that made them downright terrible, to just ok, to amazingly awesome. All with the same equipment, in the same room.
The only variable that changed was speaker position and listening position.
I'm saying all of this to bring up the problem with reading subjective speaker reviews. If I can have such an incredibly diverse array of experiences with just a single pair of speakers in my room, how can I know that a reviewer has optimally positioned the speakers under review? Even if he has, how can I know if my acoustic space is even comparable to the reviewer's?
To emphasize, pulling my JBLs 6 feet from the rear wall as opposed to 2 feet, completely alters tonal balance and soundstaging. It is like a completely different set of speakers. Some positions make them brighter than hell. Some positions make them dark and dull. Some positions the bass slams. Some positions the bass sounds anemic.
These wildly varying results have killed my interest in speaker reviews, almost entirely.
Any discussion on this topic is welcome.