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RE: S'phile Recommended Components & Audio Research

To be fair, not all products can be reviewed because there are too many of them.

As well, Stereophile typically reviews products that a manufacturer wants to have reviewed and will loan it out for that purpose. As well, it has to be a product that Stereophile wants to review. If there is no agreement, then there is no review. An exception would be some vintage products.

According to John Atkinson, Magnepan does not want Stereophile to review their speakers because Wendell Diller does not feel that JA's measurements properly reflect their performance.

I agree with him to this extent, that JA's measurement suite is not well suited for dipole speakers--this is not an issue specific to Magnepan. Notably, JA's FR graphs for dipoles usually show a big peak in the bass, which does not appear in the room response. I have no idea what proprietary information Diller thinks would be revealed.
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