Quote Originally Posted by RGA View Post
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The presumption is that stores are bad and homes are somehow cure all solutions. That applies to "some" extent to audio shows. I never quite get why these people think they can set up speaker X in their home and achieve better sound than the speaker X head designer setting up a room at a dealer (which by the way is often the case).

Good speakers should be designed to operate in a variety of rooms. Hence why the "best" loudspeakers that I have heard sound very very similar (and also good to phenomenal) across a wide range of rooms sizes and shapes. ....
There's no such presumption on my part. But ultimately speakers have to work in my room, not some hypothetically ideal room, whether be the maker's, the dealer's, a hotel room, John Atkninson's, or the NRC's anechoic facility.

People talk about component synergies: the most important is the speaker with the room.