At 01:34 25/06/2017, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
It's then amazingly difficult to get a rig amenable to the job. At my rather low price point, it's almost impossible to get any numbers on how your tentative loudspeakers behave. Pretty much no speaker manufacturer wants to publish even such basic measures as impedance curves at contact, driver thermal constants/dynamic compression time constants, polar response plots, waterfall plots, crossover frequencies, phase plots, and the thing.
In recent years, I have only seen such plots (and not all of them) in reviews by Stereophile magazine, after seeing which, and listening to in the shop, I bought four B&W DM603 S3 speakers for about $600 each about 10 years ago. I am still very happy with them though, had I the money and the space, I would be even happier wih their studio monitors! Lower quality speakers that that I wouldnt expect to give decent 4.0 results. But what price range are you looking at?
Undoubtedly it's more complicated on the speaker side. But the difficulty is manifest on the mic side as well: all of the measurables dual to those of a speaker can in fact sometimes affect the performance of a mic, and then even there they don't just tell you outright what those measurables *are*.
No microphone known to me, at any price, has sufficiently defined or credible specifications. You just have to use your ears, I am afraid!
David
Then because of the unknowns, you might well end up paying several thousands of euros extra, for nothing at all. Even at the high end, which people here talk about... :/
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