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I think the trick here is to read your audience... The average person looking for a good deal on speakers isn't going to pour over complex, zoomed in grapsh. They would be practically meaningless to him or her. The "loudness graph" in my second example is simple, easily read and highly indicative of what can be expected in-use.
It's not denying a person information ... it is giving them the information that is most useful to them.
Yes, many will simply listen and determine whether they like or not.
A loudness graph might be progress for others. Am just not convinced that a frequency response plot with a +/- 25 dB graph is more helpful. If a manufacturer quotes +/- 3 dB and then publishes graphs with +/- 25 dB, just seems intentionally misleading to me.
In a speaker DBT, it would not be acceptable to not level match the speakers. Agree that we are less likely to hear 1 dB diff in real content, but when we get to 3 dB or more, we certainly hear loudness diffs. Why our visual representations should not be comparably scaled seems to defy logic to me.