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Agreed. I’m smitten with a pair of Fact 8s on ebay at the moment but this review has me a little concerned. If it helps I mainly listen to Electronica (four tet, Air, that sort of thing) and my listening room is not huge, plus speakers are closer to the wall than ideal due to kids etc.
Safe option is the Kefs as I know how they’ll behave. The Fact 8s are promising tho.
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I take on board the ASR findings but I'm not seeing anything like that with my own measurements.
I don't doubt that the rig he's using surpasses mine technically and I definitely have some high end hearing loss due to age but the response I get from a room mic at the listening position is nowhere near as lumpy as the results he has.
I've never had problems with the sensitivity although as I noted above they do seem to like a powerful amp. I'm never running them anywhere near max.
One comment about them setting off his tinnitus did have me scratching my beard though. Maybe they fall apart at volumes higher than I'm testing, mine have always been near field or in small rooms.
My listening room end game speaker is the ATC40, active hopefully so I was pleased to see them get a kinder review linked in the thread. I'm not going to rush off and sell the 3 pairs of PMC that I have! but I'm happy not to have a pair of the ones tested because that test/thread would put a big dent in the resale value.
It is also typical that people are commenting about the entire PMC range based on the measured performance of one of their monitors. It is quite possible that PMC don't work so hard to get a flat response out of their small domestic monitors though, they may even be voiced that way.