Hey fellas, I'm that noaudiophile guy. Been a member here for a while as I'm a big fan of Rick Craig's work with Selah, I have a couple of his speakers that are definitely my reference for good sound.
I wanted to address some concern about the measurements I take. In general I spend a lot of time with the speakers for a review, and usually have a hundred or so measurements that I cherry pick from to use. I really only use measurements in the reviews to show what I'm hearing.
In the process of hunting down problems or building DSP corrections I'll window the measurements down to almost nothing and work my way back from there. The problem with showing windowed or god forbid unsmoothed measurements is that if I use those results the audience I serve does not understand what it is that I'm showing them and will think that the speaker has no bass or sounds like a disaster. Because I do this for fun I'm not really up writing a text book to explain that or for splicing close micing results of the woofer on top of everything. Not to mention I'd need to explain the rise to FS on everything. Really it's just swapping one problem for another. I do attempt to let people know that the measurements I show below 1k are pretty much worthless, but working indoors give me the freedom to work at night and take lots of measurements without scaring the neighbors. Bigger speakers I do have to haul out in the yard, but I usually don't mess with those because I'm already pretty tight with space.
Now, I'm just an opinionated dude with a good reference system and a calibrated mic. If anyone spots a mistake or room for improvement I'm happy to learn.
Hope you guys like the other reviews, and if you have any questions about anything let me know.
As for the JBL's.. they are very good if you like horn imaging.
