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<blockquote data-quote="newusername" data-source="post: 2749743" data-attributes="member: 562064">You&#039;re being just as blind but from a different angle!The engineers for companies you mentioned previously do not just tap their wand over a speaker and work their magic, or grab a paint brush and work the &quot;art&quot; of speaker design.&nbsp; Believe it or not, they utilize things like FEA and Klippel with THD and IMD measurements.&nbsp; There is no magic at work; this is why they hire engineers to design speakers and not someone with a creative mind who couldn&#039;t run a FEA program like ABAQUS for the life of them.At the same time, people like Dr. Earl Geddes and Dr. Lidia Lee are doing incredible work in understanding the psycho-acoustics of sound interpretation.&nbsp; While an engineer can easily design a speaker that is better in every way shape or form, this thread is perfect proof that the human element is very difficult to account for.There are two arguments being created in this thread, both of which are 100% correct.1. Speaker A sounds better than Speaker B2. Speaker B is better than Speaker A and measures as such.Speaker B is better because it can be proven as such through quantifiable measurements.&nbsp; Speaker A may be preferred, but this is opinion based with highly dynamic possibilities.And Kurt, the 06 XXX is split coil only; there is no XBL^2 utilization at play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newusername, post: 2749743, member: 562064"] You're being just as blind but from a different angle! The engineers for companies you mentioned previously do not just tap their wand over a speaker and work their magic, or grab a paint brush and work the "art" of speaker design. Believe it or not, they utilize things like FEA and Klippel with THD and IMD measurements. There is no magic at work; this is why they hire engineers to design speakers and not someone with a creative mind who couldn't run a FEA program like ABAQUS for the life of them. At the same time, people like Dr. Earl Geddes and Dr. Lidia Lee are doing incredible work in understanding the psycho-acoustics of sound interpretation. While an engineer can easily design a speaker that is better in every way shape or form, this thread is perfect proof that the human element is very difficult to account for. There are two arguments being created in this thread, both of which are 100% correct. 1. Speaker A sounds better than Speaker B 2. Speaker B is better than Speaker A and measures as such. Speaker B is better because it can be proven as such through quantifiable measurements. Speaker A may be preferred, but this is opinion based with highly dynamic possibilities. And Kurt, the 06 XXX is split coil only; there is no XBL^2 utilization at play. [/QUOTE]

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