Impulse Response Files by Celestion – We put our speaker sound and our IR tones side by side – can you tell the difference?
www.celestionplus.com
A quote from this practical real-life test:
“We’ve compared the Impulse Responses with physical speakers in a professional sound recording studio and, frankly, we are hard put to it to detect which is which, even under optimal listening conditions.”
It seems Impulse Response is just another speaker measurement among many.
From one audio expert:
This article details Joe D'Appolito's measurement method which provide the strongest predictor of loudspeaker preference available to us today.
audioxpress.com
“In over 30 years of designing loudspeakers, I have found the following measurements taken as a group provide the strongest predictor of loudspeaker preference available to us today. These measurements are:
• On-axis frequency response
• Impulse response (IR)
• Cumulative spectral decay
• Polar response
• Step response
• Impedance
• Efficiency/Sensitivity
• Distortion
• Dynamics
Clearly, none of these measurements quantifies “musicality” or “transparency.” However, based on my experience, it is possible to relate these measurements either singly or in various combinations to some aspect of loudspeaker quality.”
Maybe
@shadyJ and
@TLS Guy can comment on the overall importance of IR compared to all the other speaker measurements.
IR is just one factor.
Did Floyd Toole or other audio experts express much significance to IR compared to Frequency Response and other measurements?