Does measurements really matter?

Well, if we ever hope to hear recordings as their creators devised them, yes, of course they do matter.

Otherwise we risk forever going around in the audio circle of confusion that Sean Olive and Floyd Toole have spoken about.

Whatever you or I decide to sonically do with that recording afterwards is entirely up to us, our ears, our system and our room.

@luxmancl38 ,

"In a conversation w/Steve Guttenberg Roy Delgado the Klipsch Heresy designer had a conversation w/Paul Klipsch. He told PK that the measurements were fine but it didn't sound correct. Paul then told Roy that there is a 5% Fudge Factor. He told Roy do you want a speaker that a computer likes or do you want a speaker the human ear likes."

This actually seems to indicate that measurements matter up to 95%, and the rest being the 'fudge factor'.

Of course a true heart over head subjectivist wouldn't care if that ratio was even 99% to 1%.

They'd still only be interested in the 1%.

And 1% of their total music collection is what they eventually might end up listening to.

I guess if they're happy that way... then why not?

Many folks love that 5% fudge the way Klipsch serve it up.