Now if you'd like more information I can send you loads. What the information absolutely cannot tell you is whether you will love the sound of them, despite Peter Gansterer receiving a patent for a dynamic driver design, which is pretty rare these days
i THINK what a lot of us want is just accuracy. If a speaker can accurately reproduce a source, then it becomes much more appealing than an instantly "pleasing" speaker.
In that sense,
just listening can't tell us about accuracy as much as a good combination of listening assisted by confirming measurements. I don't want to buy a speaker that sounds great during an audition but then proceeds to hide information from me because, say, it's got a 2db dip from 150hz to 1100hz - because at the end of the day I don't want to listen to the speaker, I want to listen to the music or the movie I'm watching and hear everything I'm supposed to hear clearly and precisely, not only I what may enjoy hearing.
Likewise, without an impedance measurement, I can't know if a modest amplifier can drive a speaker as its manufacturer intended it to sound. I mean, clicking "detailed information" for the Klimt series, I scroll down and see no graphs of any sort. THe closest thing to an impedance measurement is nominal impedance at 4 ohms. Okay great... is that a flat four ohms, is it a usually 5 ohms with some 4 ohm dips, or is it really a nominally 3 ohm speaker that rises to 5 ohms long enough to qualify as "4 ohm" yet and dips to 2 ohms?
I'm not told how these speakers deal with compression - can I drive this speaker to 105 dbs in a very large room without hearing any mechanical distortion whatsoever during Open Range? It may be able to thermally withstand 500 watts of dynamic power, but can it handle 500 watts RMS and the equivalent dynamic power associated with that?
I'm not told if it's even got a flat frequency response curve. 22hz - 100khz tells me nothing. Is this in an anechoic environment, or is this in a 8' x 4' washroom? A sealed bookshelf could even probably reproduce 22hz... it'll just be -36db at 22 hz... virtually inaudible. I can't go to an audition room and know for sure that what i'm hearing is "22hz" because I'm not familiar with the number "22hz", but a calibrated measurement device in half space most certainly is!
You should use speaker companies like Salk Sound and Ascend Acoustics as a reference. These companies don't rely on measurements to sell their produce, but they
provide extensive measurements as a supplement such that I can feel very confident purchasing their product even blindly to know that even if it's not to my absolute preference, I'm not making a mistake, either. If i were blindly buying a speaker I'd never heard, most certainly i wouldn't think twice before choosing a Salk Soundscape 12. The design goals for that speaker were total accuracy, and the measurements support that. I may even find that virtually total accuracy isn't as pleasing as the Klimt speaker you sell... but I do know for sure that I'm getting the "full experience" without unsurity. I've lived my life long enough to know just how much pleasing speakers really hide.
Ultimately, based on your website, I really don't know what the engineering goals behind your Vienna Acoustics Klimt series are - and without knowing that I can't just listen to a product and expect it to do justice to my source material! Your goals may very much be to sell beautiful cabinets to people who walk into a store with a wad of cash...and with these goals the "listen" approach will certainly sell speakers. But it won't give those people the full experience, just the parts of it that sound best. On the other hand your goals may in fact be to produce the most accurate audio possible. But your website doesn't make that clear because an engineer confident in his work will share the information necessary to support it.
One of the reasons I like the reviews on this website is that they tell me 3 things
1) That a manufacturer is confident in how his/her product sounds.
2) That a manufacturer is confident in how his/her product measures, as the reviewers here put things through possibly rather rigourous and detailed testing.
3) That a manufacturer is condifent in how his/her product is priced, often being pitted against less expensive or comparable reference speakrs as opposed to a case of "yeah, it's good for the homeless price of 4000/pr, although the Revel Ultima 2 Salon is better and I own one
".
Very rarely do I see negative reviews on this website. That's a function of the above 3 things, not a function of positive review mantra. Poor lexicon got owned though.
