So confusing statement..... "Test with your ears is not good advice It's about ad hoc analysis by somewhat trained ears"? Aren't those two statements in the same sentence mutually exclusive?
Clearly not. One is about the signal content judged with help of a (hopefully soon to be) verified listening device, and one, that device, aka DIYed special purpose monitor - at the stage of not yet tested veracity, which I cannot meaninfully rectify by playing some music album and feeling "sounds good" - which tells me
almost nothing about this except it's not outright broken. These two things are not at the same time. You're expecting to pull oneself in the air on the own bootstraps, as they say.
And a trained ear doesn't mean a miracle device that can do this, this was contextual, as in, trained for the purpose of the analysis of
particular types of signals. I did not say "ear of god".
EVERY SPEAKER box and driver has trade-offs
Hence chosing one that works especielly well (according to manufacturer... seem reputable, though) for a limited scenario at hand seems like a good move, no?
Having a 100..12k range is a nice limitation.
And your gear is for improving the economy, specifically in the hearing aid sector - totally different animals than what I'm after.
Next to the fact that your electromechanical instrument amplifiers aren't amplifiers per se, they are tone shapers, too, and the commonly used speakers and cabinets there are total crap for anything except those purposes. That stuff has
maximal subjectivity.
Anyway... I'll look again at this stuff ~ on the weekend.