I suspect the “measurement that really counts” can only be done experientially with this speaker. I suspect the measurements are going to be good and “right”, but that won’t tell the whole story.
"...but that won’t tell the whole story"Nope, likely not.
That's because measurements are only part of the story, but most certainly they are not the entirety of the story with respect to our
perception of music.
The perception of music is a
construct by the human brain, meaning that our brains actively interpret and create the experience of music based on the sounds we hear, utilizing various cognitive processes to analyze elements like pitch, rhythm, and harmony, and ultimately shaping our subjective experience of the music.
This is also why, when taking measurements of a Guarneri violin playing a C-Major and a Stradavarius playing a C-Major, they'll measure the same, but when a person listens to each of them, they sure won't sound the same, because they have different
timbre. The reason we hear these differences in timbre between the two different makes of violins is because of
psychoacoustics.
And here's a scientific publication from regarding this from NIH:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10605363/
