Consumer Reports

A nonprofit consumer advocacy organization and magazine that publishes ratings and reviews of consumer products. In these claims, its speaker/loudspeaker ratings methodology is discussed—noting that its ratings inversely predicted perceived sound quality and that it eventually discontinued loudspeaker reviews after research discredited its measurement approach.

Claims that use this term

• Consumer Reports speaker ratings were negatively correlated with blind-test fidelity ratings
• Consumer Reports loudspeaker ratings lacked rigorous subjective validation
• Consumer Reports loudspeaker ratings inversely predicted perceived sound quality.
• Consumer Reports killed its loudspeaker reviews after research disproved their methods
• Consumer Reports rated loudspeakers using sone-converted sound power against an ideal target
• Consumer Reports’ accuracy scores inversely correlated with actual listener preferences.