Quote Originally Posted by RGA
I probably badly stated the point but I am in agreement with what you're saying. A good recording is hard to screw up with most any speaker even ones I don't really like. Accuracy is something most every speaker maker claims to try and achieve - the CBM measures very well but most people I knwo who've heard them call it a tinny irritating mess - but you are mnot going to get that from looking at the graph.

I happen to support the article written by Leonard Norwitz and peter Qvortrup to determine what is on the recording over going by a measurement that show me a graph that says that a speaker is pretty flat...I have heard dozens and dozens of speakers described as flat or "excellent" measuring "neautral" and "accurate'" without any sort of irrifutable or close evidence to support the notion -- usually reviewed by mags that get all their ad revenue from the maker -- lets see Motortrend calll a pinto anything but a great car.

It's not all about treble and bass but dynamics as well -- When I was listening where I found the biggest differences in recordings was in the dynamics and pressure the instruments can create in a physical space -- those differences are gigantic across recoprdings and something I have never ever heard from the list of speaker makers provided to me by 3db (and i've heard a great deal from every one of them). Klipsch onterestingly enough has made some that do.

There is no way to truly know if you are getting accurate sound and certainly no way to reproduce the sound of the recording as the recording engineer intended. And if you did then you certainly could not get it from a second cd you put in your player that was recorded in another country in another room with different speakers different RE's ears etc.

I can not perfectly accurately recreate the experience of that Recording engineer or live event. If you drive to Canada from Las Vegas at a perfect 100mph all the way and i take the same road and also travel at the identical speed it may be close but if you're in a Bently and I'm on a motorbike -- it ain't the same trip (and I'll be needing hemeroid help).
I dunno I prefer the involvemnet of a motorcycle rather than the uninspring ride of a Bentley .