What do you consider the most when choosing a pair of speakers?


Hi, just being curious here. 

When choosing a pair of speakers, do you consider design first? or the sound? or a particular brand? 

I want to say the sound matters the most for me, but my wife would never allow anything industrial looks or a design that goes against her taste regardless of the sound quality. 

What are your thought?

monacousticusa

Showing 2 responses by holmz

@monacousticusa
The “Engineered for natural sound” would suggest some engineering measurement or principles, but those are not explicitly shown.

I don’t see any graphs on your website, so that can be a bit of a show stopper for the data driven types.

it looks like there could be diffraction effects coming from the edges where the drivers are mounted, but it is hard to say without graphs. Even impedance would be nice to see.

I also like to see step function response or impulse response.

The “hogged out of a billet” design looks nice though. Usually what I like the WAF scores low on.

@theaudioamp 

Listening to a speaker anywhere but in my space is a near meaningless venture. The room colors the sound too much. 

Actually ones that measure poorly in a chamber, etc, should also work poorly in your room, or anyone’s room.

 

The measurements tell me far more about how it will behave in my room than an audition ever will outside my house. Most speaker vendors provide inadequate information. That is bad enough. Providing none wastes my time. I won't bother.

Agreed.