most accurate loudspeakers....

i have yet to be in a studio big or small and seen 'any' post work on 'any' audio track done with anything that resembles something considered 'audiophile'.....the 'room' must truly be the thing, and the mixes (and opinions) from engineer to engineer are as varied as opinions on this thread. the shear numbers would suggest that jbl dominates professional circles, but once again, what's used in the studio is just playback for whats already tampered with and altered anyway.

i have yet to be in a studio big or small and seen 'any' post work on 'any' audio track done with anything that resembles something considered 'audiophile'.....the 'room' must truly be the thing, and the mixes (and opinions) from engineer to engineer are as varied as opinions on this thread.

Quite true. Some studios, such as Crystalphonic cost five MILLION dollars - so there is no way they resemble a home Hi-Fi!

However, many sound engineers are not beyond the semi-religious kind of simple tweaking and attentioin to minor details that is normally associated with audiophiles, such as what an amp sits upon, or what kind of wire runs between a woofer and an amplifier!

So I don't think you can dismiss this group, if anything they are surely more discerning buyers than people who have a day job and come home to their system only in the evening/weekends. Here is a great example of the use of Shakti pads, Van den Hull cable rewiring of speakers and many other tweaks that highly respected sound engineers get up to on a boat...as the sailor said quote, "Now ain't that a hole in the boat"!

How do we define most accurate? Here are a couple possibilities:
1. Most accurate at creating the illusion of a live concert or musicians in your home?
2. Most accurate and reproducing the input signal's waveform in room at your listening seat?

At this time I believe these 2 possibilities are mutually exclusive.

I know some speakers that do a good job at #1, like Sound Labs. I don't know ANY speaker which can do #2.

Donald North

the problem with a subjective criterion like the illusion of a live concert is the wide range of assessments associated with a given stereo system.

the pursuit of accuracy, the measurement of accuracy and the criteria for accuracy are all counter productive.

if i can say i like the sound of a stereo system it doesn't matter how inaccurate it is.

the question for all of us, why do we like the sound of a stereo system ?

"Why Is There Air?"
-Bill Cosby, 1965