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From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: How to evaluate speakers
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 17:53:18 EST
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> (From: wwb@ihuxn.UUCP (Walt Barnes))
> By the way, when you listen to a system, did you know that having
> another set of speakers (just setting there not playing anything)
> in the room makes it impossible to evaluate anything.  The passive
> speakers  vibrate in response to the sound being produced and
> pollute the sound being produced, no matter how good the system
> being evaluated is.  Needless to say, those walls of speakers found
> at some stereo stores are a disaster.  (At really good stores, they
> will have only one pair of speakers in the listening room at a time.)

How convenient for the golden-ears crowd that this reasoning makes
A/B speaker comparisons impossible!  I'll take my chances on the
passive vibrations rather than on my long-term sonic memory when
evaluating speakers!

			Dave Wagner
			University of Washington Comp Sci Department
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