If you could do a blind shootout...


of floorstanding speakers UP TO $3,000...what spedific speaker(s) would you want to be in the shootout?
jimaxp
Avguy,

Manufacturers are ask to fully burn in their speakers before they submit them. Does that help?
Will the panel know the price range?

They will know they are floorstanders priced at $3K or less. Pretty hard to hide that since it is public knowledge.
First, yes. You can actually SEE the system used since it will be the same as our last shootout. Here's the link:

http://www.stereomojo.com/Small%20Speaker%20Shootout%202007/SmallSpeakerShootout2007Part1.htm

Second,just like last time, each speaker will also be fully measured with the charts published.

Third, each speaker will also get its own individual review in yet a different system, room and reviwer.

Perhaps that's why our shootouts are so well respected.

You said, "Otherwise, people looking for real useful information will be mislead to expect certain things with these speakers on their systems and in their rooms, which are different, and have stronger chance of being disapointed in reality."

"Stronger chance of being disappointed" than what? Having no information at all? We think 5 people hearing them in the same room with the same system listening to music that spans classic orchestral, jazz, male & female vocal and others, with the added full measurements AND an individual review by a single reviewer in his own room with his own system adds up to rather good information for our readers...don't you? Is it perfect? Flawless? Of course not. Nothing is. But in these cases, the object is the more accurate and unbiased info you can get, the better. Make sense?