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Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph?

Eric at Tekton Designs has been battling two different reviewers who have posted measurements without his permission, using Klippel devices for their respective measurements.

It seems to me that if manufactures provide a simple smoothed out graph, consumers can see how much a speaker is editorializing with a frequency response that deviates from neutral.  

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erik_squires
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PS - So long as you accurately publish the methodology you use to measure I don’t see a problem, even if that method is non-standard.

Now, coming to poor conclusions based on measurements, that's kind of ASR's bag.  😂

erik_squires
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Meh.  As a person with 3 measurement mic's in his house, I wouldn't trust the speaker maker's measurements to begin with, and don't think most would interpret them correctly, and what good is a quasi anechoic (or fully anechoic) measurement when it comes to my room?

I'd much rather see off-axis frequency plots as done by Stereophile and others, as well as dynamic range plots.

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