For a real laugh look at HT Shack, where they test
subs intended to be woofer downward next to a wall [RELs] in a parking lot
with the woofer pointing to the side.
FWIW - Ilkka Rissanen, who conducted those "laughable" tests,
recently got a job working in the research department for
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manufacturer. The bad thing is that working at Genelec gives him access to
a top notch research laboratory equipped with the very finest measuring
instruments in the industry (Klippel Analyzer, Audio Precision, MLSSA) and an
anechoic chamber. I suspect even Genelec still go outside from time to time
to make calibration measurements in a halfspace (parking lot) or suspend a
speaker from a crane and then repeat the measurement to get a calibration
for their chamber...just as Dr. Floyd Toole used to do at Canada's National
Research Council Laboratories before he got a VP job at Harman (since
retired).
Definitely a different crowd.