Acoustically acceptable rooms require neutral loudspeakers plus acoustical treatment

Evidence

If being “acoustically acceptable” means experiencing timbrally neutral reproduced sound, the formula must begin with properly designed loudspeakers, followed with some of the recommendations in this book. This is territory not familiar to everybody in professional audio. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 338

Categorization

• XREF: Directly ties to the book’s central precept that neutral loudspeakers are the starting point before room treatment, a theme threaded throughout all chapters.