MEASUREMENTS
After driving to Sasha Matson’s place in upstate New York last September to measure the Wilson Sasha DAW speakers that he reviewed in the January issue, I stopped off at Art Dudley’s place in Albany on my way home the next day to measure the Rethm Maargas. As always, I used DRA Labs’ MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Maarga’s frequency response in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 mike for the nearfield and spatially averaged room responses. I used my usual Krell KSA-50 amplifier for the quasi-anechoic measurements but measured the room response with the Shindo Haut-Brion, with which Art had done most of his auditioning of the Maargas.
When testing a loudspeaker, I raise it off the floor so that the tweeter
