<font color='#000000'>I believe the 2 part article states that the tests were done a couple hundred feet away from any buildings (must've needed some huge extension cords!) to eliminate any reflections.
Aside from the possible disadvantage to the bottom firing subs (not sure just how much bass the ground would absorb), I think the test was pretty well done.
It is a pet peave of mine, too, when a company uses adds the room gain of wherever they measure it to arrive at their freq curves. While a sub will be used in a room, I agree that room gain is a characteristic of rooms, not subs. They can't possibly guess what the gain might be in my room, even if I attempt to follow their setup instructions to the letter.
The main thing that disappoints me is that they didn't include any SVS subs in the test. Granted, you can't test everything in one article, but the SVS subs have garnered a lot of buzz, and they make some pretty tall performance claims. It'd be good to see someone do a test in a quasi-anechoic (or better) environment to put those claims to the test.</font>