A Wilson-sized speaker in an open field

Take my Wilsons outside and stand them in an open field, no walls, no room. Very little sound would come out of them, and what did would be unlistenable.

That is not a weakness of the speaker. It was designed to operate inside a room, your listening room or your living room, and the relationship between the two is symbiotic. Someone asked me which comes first, the room or the speakers, and I called it the chicken and the egg. I believe we recently discovered it was the chicken.

With the Yvette this shows up in the measurements. Its perceived low end is dominated by the properties of the room, which tells me it was designed for listeners with curated and treated listening rooms. Put it in the wrong room and the 20 Hz you paid for becomes a problem you hear.

Let me be clear about the consequence. Every speaker is designed for a different room, big, congested or small, so the room has to be understood before the speaker is chosen. Treat the basic problems first, then choose the speaker for the room you actually have.

The room is not where the speaker ends up. It is half of what the speaker is.