What is the standard that evaluates a home theater speaker good or bad?

AssasinK

Member
What is the standard that evaluates a home theater speaker good or bad? A truly high quality speaker should have both high quality objective performance indicators and good subjective listening evaluation. High quality performance indicators include wide and flat frequency response, little distortion, fast transient response, high sound output capacity, high power carrying capacity, appropriate impedance characteristics, and reasonable sensitivity. What is good subjective listening evaluation is an "art", and everyone has different criteria.

In theory, since the home theater speaker is a link of the entire home theater sound system, and it is the most obvious final element of the sound quality. It should be faithfully restore, speakers itself without any personality, not to make any distortion or the original music signal decorate beautification, if at or near the standard, is a good home theater speaker, this is what we call "to be" point of view. However, some people believe that since home theater speakers are used to regenerate music, the criterion to judge whether the sound is good or not is whether the sound is good or not. This is the so-called "aestheticism" point of view.

"Aestheticism" allows the the home theater speaker to carry on the reasonable modification to the music signal, also does not care too much whether the technical index is excellent, as long as the sound released is "pleasant to hear" on the line. "Aestheticism" is more suitable for those of us who listen to music as entertainment fans, however, there is no unified standard for what is called "pleasant to hear", and regardless of performance blind pursuit of good to hear or personality is easy to fall into a misunderstanding. Therefore, we can objectively understand that even a good home theater speaker recognized by "aesthetes" should be built on the premise of ensuring basic performance indicators.
 
Top