Well-designed loudspeakers are recognized by ordinary customers only under valid comparison conditions

Evidence

The good news for the audio industry is that if a loudspeaker is well designed, ordinary customers may recognize it—if given a reasonable opportunity to judge. The pity is that there are few opportunities for consumers to make valid listening comparisons, and the author is not aware of an independent source of such unbiased listening test data for customers to go to for help in making purchasing decisions. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1078