Should Speaker Manufactures provide a Frequency Response Graph?


Eric at Tekton Designs has been battling two different reviewers who have posted measurements without his permission, using Klippel devices for their respective measurements.

It seems to me that if manufactures provide a simple smoothed out graph, consumers can see how much a speaker is editorializing with a frequency response that deviates from neutral.  

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"Why would anyone want to look a Porsche 911 specs or its track performance? "

That is precisely the point. Why do you need to look at 911 specs? We all knowit is a great car.

Stop comparing muscle cars and "high end" audio. Fooling someone with cars is a lot harder to do.

Junk sound gets priced at 100k quite easy.

This has to be the greatest video ever made 😁

 

I have never been able to discern the voicing of a speaker from performance specs.  

Heck, even the humidity levels in my room change the sound. Let alone all the other variables. 

I have concluded that performance specs are for bench racing. 

I couldn't care less, simply because their measurements aren't in my room which is always vastly different. I also don't put much stock into the tech specs which tend to be off as well. 

So if they or ASR wants to post frequency curves that's fine, neither will tell me what they measure in my room.  


I have never been able to discern the voicing of a speaker from performance specs.

From manufacturer specs? That makes sense.
However, it is not difficult to do with thorough third-party measurements. It merely requires an understanding of how the measurements correlate to perceived sound quality. For example, take any two tweeters and provide a CSD/waterfall graph for each. Based on the graphs, I could tell you with certainty which one will sound cleaner and more refined.

Another example: a speaker with a wider horizontal dispersion over a large bandwidth will produce a bigger soundstage than one with a narrower dispersion over the same bandwidth.