LtMandella
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New member here although I have been lurking for about a year. I am midway between measurement based and listening based evaluations. I expect there are characteristics of sound reproduction and human hearing that we don't fully understand and cannot effectively measure yet, although there are plenty of both that can be and are useful for evaluating components.
Anyway I would be surprised if this specific loudspeaker unit did not have a manufacturing/assembly defect. Hard to believe ELAC would market a unit with such an inherent flaw as detected by Amir's work (thank you Amir).
One comment about the test track in case others seek to replicate on other systems. There are multiple masterings of this track. I found two on QOBUZ and the "remastered" version clearly has the breath sounds edited out (I am quite surprised and disappointed the engineers would do this). This confused the heck out of me when trying to replicate Amir's listening test! Then I noticed the track title said "remastered".
With a different version on QOBUZ of the same track (seems to be the originally released version) I can clearly hear the breath sound at 55 sec., listening with my Ref 3A DeCapo I speakers - and thankfully with no squealing.
Anyway I would be surprised if this specific loudspeaker unit did not have a manufacturing/assembly defect. Hard to believe ELAC would market a unit with such an inherent flaw as detected by Amir's work (thank you Amir).
One comment about the test track in case others seek to replicate on other systems. There are multiple masterings of this track. I found two on QOBUZ and the "remastered" version clearly has the breath sounds edited out (I am quite surprised and disappointed the engineers would do this). This confused the heck out of me when trying to replicate Amir's listening test! Then I noticed the track title said "remastered".
With a different version on QOBUZ of the same track (seems to be the originally released version) I can clearly hear the breath sound at 55 sec., listening with my Ref 3A DeCapo I speakers - and thankfully with no squealing.