Quote Originally Posted by theaudiohobby
As you note, those lofty figures are not representative of real-world listening rooms. looking at an actual in-room response.
You might want to read the comments that accompany those measurements you've just done discussing.
You might want to note that the "real world response" that JA measured in Art's room is "free standing" measurement and again not how Audio Note recommends them to be placed. Putting the speaker neart he side wall and in a corner is not the same - the Red blue graph that is shown had the speaker measured not from a corner and according to JA "they were a little more than 15" from the wall behind them" according to JA. 15 inches is more than a foot away from the corner and as such that is not corner loading - (the viscinity of the corner is not in a corner) it's free standing. I am impressed that it did well free standing against a much larger built for free standing position Harbeth. The E manual also notes that bass boom will be an issue if it is out from the corner too far - and that result is pretty clear with the "enetertaining" 31.5 hz boost.

Since it's not designed for free standing and sounds worse free standing then whatever the conclusion of how it sounds there is totally irrelevant. It would be like me putting a speaker not remotely designed for a corner in a corner and blaming the speaker for sounding muddy. The speaker is supposes to be as close to the back wall and side wall as you can get without actually touching - 1or 2 centimeters - not 15 inches. 2 inches it booms so the temptation is to do what Art did and pull them far out from the wall. I don't blame him I did the same thing for a couple of months.