Quote Originally Posted by dave123456@mail.com
I think that measurements are just part of the story. While the Ascends measure very well and play without audible resonances, they are an extremely boring speaker that has an overly analytical presentation that seems to favor measurement rather than musical enjoyement. Now, im not saying Ascends are crappy speakers its jsut that people need to look at them for more than jsut measurements when writing a review. They may measure as good as 1k speakers but they wont be as musical.
This brings up a good point engineers don't like to admit...Frequency response curves only tell part of the story. As I said earlier, for whatever reasons, there are many speakers that measure very well, but don't sound great, and vice-versa.