Voice Coil December 2022 Improves Loudspeaker Measurements

Voice Coil December 2022 features an updated directory of Measurement Microphones Vendors, Mike Klasco writes about how to Enhance Low-Frequency Performance, and Vance Dickason reminds us that there is a more realistic way to map speaker resonances. Test Bench characterizes two tweeters from Beyma's new Near and Mid Field (NMF) series: the T-25M 1" aluminum/magnesium alloy metal dome tweeter, and the similar T-25S 1" silk dome tweeter.

In this reference article, published by audioXpress in 2008, Joe D’Appolito shares his experiments with loudspeaker evaluation. In the two parts of this article, D’Appolito tries to answer the question: “Of all the measurements available to the designer, which ones are the best predictors of listener preference?" In over 30 years of designing loudspeakers, I have found the following measurements taken as a group provide the strongest predictor of loudspeaker preference available to us today,” he states.

The controversy over subjective versus objective loudspeaker evaluation has raged on for decades. However, to my mind, there is no controversy. These criteria are simply two faces of the same coin. In over 30 years of designing loudspeakers, I have found the following measurements taken as a group provide the strongest predictor of loudspeaker preference available to us today. Want to know more? Read this reference article, originally published in audioXpress, September 2008.