"In some of their speaker reviews in the later ‘70’s and into the ‘80’s they started including a response curve along with the ratings. I wish they had done that here. It just seems easier sometimes (at least for me, anyway), to see information like this presented in a graphical format as opposed to just trying to make sense of a written description."
"I think you may have misinterpreted what they were trying to do with this part of the test. From the way I took it they were just trying to establish if listening tests by a panel of real people with real ears would collaborate their laboratory tests. They found that they did. To quote, “The panelists were asked to judge which one of the two test speakers produced a sound that was, overall, closer to that of the reference. (We could, of course, switch back and for the between the reference speaker and the test speakers almost instantaneously.) The listeners were told emphatically not to base their judgments on which speaker seemed ‘better’ for music or which they ‘liked’ better, but merely to say which was more faithful to the reference sound.”
Now I just wonder what they used for their “reference speaker” that “we knew provided a wide, smooth frequency response.” They never mention what it is, but that is a speaker I would love to search out and listen to myself."
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