Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms!

You always find a way to go off the rails with your replies, trying to seem normal but proving otherwise as you near the end of your posts.

https://youtu.be/j4kDa_TUYxg

outstanding discussion between herb r and steve g on the subject of reviewers and reviews

some terrific perspectives articulated, well worth watching, for anyone who has been interested in this thread...

Thank you for the info.  I'll definitely check it out.

It might be interesting to see what the members here would like to see in future reviews.

The first thing I look for in any loudspeaker review is some mention of its ability to make the distinction between the timbre of different musical instruments as clear as possible. 

Secondly, and almost as importantly, I like to see how it compares with known all time reference products, eg Quad electrostatics, BBC LS 3/5, JBL l100 original, KEF LS50, Harbeth P3, Harbeth M40, Revel Ultima Salon, Wilson Sabrina, KEF Blade as well as stuff from the likes of Monitor Audio, ATC, Wharfedale, Magico, Q Acoustics, etc etc.

Unfortunately I rarely see this in reviews.

Instead, the standard review usually goes like this:

A few words about the manufacturer, blah, blah, blah..

A few words about the components, construction, and if your lucky, crossover design.

A couple of generalised lines about the way it plays a few select pieces of music.

One short sentence thrown in discreetly that hints at possible limitations, and/or suggestion for the need of a subwoofer.

Finally, a suggestion of how this particular product should be on everyone's shortlist.

If you are lucky, you might even get thrown in as an afterthought some diagrams of impedance graphs, resonance waterfalls etc.

Basically, a whole load of non committal, non offensive carefully worded deliberately vague sales pitch.

Yes, there are a few exceptions such as Andrew Robinson, Amir at ASR for example who actually dare to put reviewed products into some of kind of comparative  context.

For that alone I guess we should be grateful.

Not to defend Fremer, but walls of records, edge on, are a damned good start for treatment of the generic room.

To much may not be a good thing.

Cardboard can absorb sound waves. To much cardboard can absorb a lot of sound waves.

I remember several years ago being in a medical records room with several rows of medical records stored in cardboard folders. Just going from memory each row was about 40ft long.

I was stranding at one end of a row and a fellow worker at the other end of the same row. I asked the worker a question at a slightly elevated speaking voice due to the length, distance, we were apart from one another. I could see his lips moving but did not hear anything. To make a long story short when hollering at one another neither of us could hear the other. The sound waves of our voices were being absorbed by the cardboard file holders.

What frequencies are most easily affected?

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