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    MEASUREMENTS

    Oct 12, 2021 4 minutes
    —John Atkinson

    s with the Wilson Chronosonic XVX that Michael Fremer reviewed in the May 2021 issue, it wasn’t possible for us to maneuver one of the large, heavy Estelon Forza loudspeakers onto a dolly and wheel it into his driveway for the measurements. I therefore had to perform the measurements with the loudspeakers set up in Michael’s room. The proximity of the room’s boundaries meant that I performed my farfield frequency response measurements at 1m rather than my usual 50"; the goal is to push the reflections from those boundaries as far back in time as possible. The speakers were driven by Mikey’s darTZeel NHB 468 monoblocks, and I used DRA Labs’

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