In One Ear And In The Other
November, 1976
Testing--or, rather, "tasting"--a loud-speaker's sound is not unlike wine-tasting. You can, after some sipping and swallowing, pick a good wine without ever having set foot in a vineyard. You may not even know whether grapes grow up or down. Similarly, you can train yourself to pick a good speaker without knowing how it's assembled inside the box, or whether or not the tweeter is made of recycled paper tissues, or how such appealing terms as diaphragm, compliance and pumping have crept...
