MEASUREMENTS

used DRA Labs’ MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Göbel Divin Marquis’s frequency response in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 mike for the nearfield and in-room responses. Usually, I measure loudspeakers in our backyard, weather permitting, or in our living room with the furniture pushed to the sides. This eliminates or moves back in time the reflections of the speaker’s output. However, as this 330lb loudspeaker was too massive for me to move outside, I had to do the quasi-anechoic measurements in my listening room. I slid one of the speakers forward so that it was aimed across the room’s diagonal and was as distant as possible from the nearest sidewall. However, the proximity of room boundaries, the floor in particular, meant that even though I measured the Göbel’s quasi-anechoic