Kid,
Here's how CR measures speakers. This is from memory of their own description a few years back, but I believe it's correct. They take ~16 measurements from in front, to the side, above, behind, etc. Picture a sphere with multiple points. Those points are averaged. Then, in the most inexplicable part, they take the graph and spin it clockwise or counter clockwise, which ever makes the line more horizontal "in order to mimic the effect of a theoretical tone control". When Paul Barton, who worked at the CRC in Canada was visiting my store, I asked him about that, and he said that CR folks visited the CRC and he took them on a tour and he finally asked him how THEY measured speakers and he told them, as I recall "Uhhhh, you know that's wrong, don't you?" and he said they told him "Well, yes, but we have to have something that's objective". And that's how CR comes to it's entirely screwed up, meaningless conclusions. Moreover, unless you measure distortion, spectral decay, impulse response, etc, you're only getting a really BAD picture of ONE aspect of performance. Completely useless. Which is why CR is one of the most DANGEROUS magazines on the planet.