Statistically confirmed listener preference for neutral timbre with deep bass

Evidence

People like timbrally neutral loudspeakers with deep bass; both models say so. We thought we already knew it, but it was reassuring to have it statistically confirmed. In doing so, an influential publisher of unreliable loudspeaker reviews was silenced. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1229

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme in reviewer skepticism literature that unvalidated subjective review claims can be contradicted by measurement-grounded research.