Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best?


I have a dumb question?

who determined that the “ flattest frequency response” is the BEST?

we are all looking over specs and note all the +\- dB deviations from flat and declare it bad?

are we cattle? Or did someone like J Gordon Holt declare it?

 Or am I missing something 

Anyway, I think about stuff to much...lol

jeff

frozentundra

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I'll just add that I've never heard a speaker advertised as having a flat frequency response that sounded good to me.  They tend to sound 'dead'.

Your room is not 'flat', your ears are not 'flat', even the recordings you're playing are not 'flat'.

BTW, J. Gordon Holt was the LAST guy ever to tout something like 'flat frequency response'.  He was more about listening than measuring.