Worst measuring loudspeaker?

[VintageFlanker]

Ø Audio Verdande loudspeaker Measurements​

In room:

WTF is that piece of garbage ?!

 

[Purité Audio]

How does one pronounce ø?
it can stand for ‘measurement’?
Keith

 

[Doenerkunde]

How does one pronounce ø?
it can stand for ‘measurement’?
Keith

It's pronounced the same way as the german letter "ö", basically as a mixture between o and e:

 

[Mnyb]

How does one pronounce ø?
it can stand for ‘measurement’?
Keith

similar to Ö

 

[smygolf]

How does one pronounce ø?
it can stand for ‘measurement’?
Keith

Easy, there are several English words that are pronounced in a similar way.
Might be different between Queens English and American English

Bird
Word
Circle

 

[Purité Audio]

Thanks so, may I have a pair of ‘er’ then?
Keith

 

[Drengur]

Depends on whether it is Danish or Norwegian. If it's Danish then it is the sound you make from puking. If it is Norwegian, than it sounds like happy puking.

 

[Dialectic]

The Ø Audio Verdandes are like Revel speakers in comparison to the old Escalante Fremonts.

 

[MarkS]

The Ø Audio Verdandes are like Revel speakers in comparison to the old Escalante Fremonts.

LOL!

Also, it's fun to read the accompanying subjective reviews. Here's the conclusion for the Verdandes:

The Verdandes gave me many hours of enjoyable listening. They played as loud and large as I wanted for any kind of music, from full-size symphonic to down-and-dirty rock and blues. Although they don't go down to the lowest floor-thumping bass, they provide plenty of beat, bump, and bassline. They produced a wide, high, deep, hyperdetailed stereo image. With mono music that was well mastered, they presented the music narrow-focused in the center, allowing the life forces of the performers to emerge. With some records, the effect was startling.

The Verdandes took a long time to fully break in, but in the end, they rewarded my patience. They make a dramatic statement in both looks and sound. If you're in the market for room-filling, full-scale speakers and have a budget in the Verdande's range [$45,000/pair], check them out.

 

[Sir Sanders Zingmore]

Ø Audio Verdande loudspeaker Measurements​

In room:

To be fair, the anechoic measurement at 3m looks a lot better. For a speaker that’s designed to be listened to from a distance aren’t these more relevant? (manufacturer says “For the Verdande, full integration is reached at around 2.7m.")

Ø Audio Verdande loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com

Sidebar 3: Measurements For logistical reasons, I measured one of the Ø Audio Verdande loudspeakers, serial number 023-22525, in Tom Fine's listening room, the speaker driven by TF's Benchmark AHB2 amplifier. I subsequently returned to TF's place in Upstate New York the following week to repeat...

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EDIT: I see this was already posted (post 2143). Sorry to double up.
And as per that post, I too wonder what’s happening in the bass region.

 

[Mnyb]

To be fair, the anechoic measurement at 3m looks a lot better. For a speaker that’s designed to be listened to from a distance aren’t these more relevant? (manufacturer says “For the Verdande, full integration is reached at around 2.7m.")

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Ø Audio Verdande loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com

Sidebar 3: Measurements For logistical reasons, I measured one of the Ø Audio Verdande loudspeakers, serial number 023-22525, in Tom Fine's listening room, the speaker driven by TF's Benchmark AHB2 amplifier. I subsequently returned to TF's place in Upstate New York the following week to repeat...

www.stereophile.com

EDIT: I see this was already posted (post 2143). Sorry to double up.
And as per that post, I too wonder what’s happening in the bass region.

Yes not perfect but certainly not the usual horror show that we see in this tread it’s the price that gets me , it looks and performs like a ”play it loud” speaker, I would expect crewing vega or klipsh prices not what we have here .

I seem entirely possible to save some of it with some EQ ? Not like a Borreson thats basically unfixable

 

[mwmkravchenko]

To be fair, the anechoic measurement at 3m looks a lot better. For a speaker that’s designed to be listened to from a distance aren’t these more relevant? (manufacturer says “For the Verdande, full integration is reached at around 2.7m.")

View attachment 536668

Ø Audio Verdande loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com

Sidebar 3: Measurements For logistical reasons, I measured one of the Ø Audio Verdande loudspeakers, serial number 023-22525, in Tom Fine's listening room, the speaker driven by TF's Benchmark AHB2 amplifier. I subsequently returned to TF's place in Upstate New York the following week to repeat...

www.stereophile.com

EDIT: I see this was already posted (post 2143). Sorry to double up.
And as per that post, I too wonder what’s happening in the bass region.

That sucked out area around 1k is actually good, in a room with floor and ceiling bounce it will be filled in. So actually a reasonably good response. If you were able to manage this in room it would be stellar. Easy to pick nits. But sometimes these loudspeakers are not all that bad. The saddest part is when you take part in psycoacoustic studies and find out how quickly and uneven response loudspeaker can be normalized by our ear brain listening system while listening. We are amazingly tolerant when listening to music of much worse than this loudspeakers response.

Mark

Mark