I hear you but not sure of your logic. Here, you are seeing objective measurements of this speaker with a $100,000 measurement system. Where would you go to get such data???
Getting more specific, the measurements are not the same. Outside of a few near perfect speakers, the rest have different levels of aberrations. We could sit there and guess what they mean as far as audibility or listen. I do the latter and provide that data point. In this case, you have not only me, but another reviewer, @
napilopez having measured and listened with the same conclusions.
I think with many speakers, our objective clues are very revealing. Ultimately though, this is not a 100% precise science given the screwed up way audio systems are designed (we never know the tonality of music that is produced). I could paper over this and damn or praise speakers strictly on measurements. But I have chosen a balanced approach, damn the criticism I get from both camps.
I think we should be happy with 80% correlation between measurements and listening tests. The other 20% is there for us to think about. Could be that I am totally wrong in my assessment. Or that some factors in the measurements we are not appreciating (e.g. textbook perfect directivity of this speaker -- try to find that in headless panther measurements).
We could make forward progress if you could get a pair to listen to with return privileges. Do that and let us know what you think. I am quite confident this speaker will perform and perform very well.