I don't have anything to say regarding this speaker with respect to it being the preferred speaker to you.
But claiming that it is the current state of the art w.r.t objective measurements will put objectivists at shame..
I am assuming the measurements are coming from here:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...11-quick-measurements-single-vs-bi-amp.20093/
This is an in room response measurement which is valid only in that particular room. For getting an estimate of its raw performance, you need at least quasi-anechoic or free field polar measurements. The set of graphs are exaggerated. Its 'y' axis scaling should show a dynamic range of 50 dB for it to be of any use. Instead it is 70 dB here.
"Almost flat frequency. - let’s hear the recording without adding or removing much"
This is a speaker that is meant to be heard in the far field. How can you say that it has almost flat frequency response at listening position without seeing a full CEA 2034 Spinorama or at least without a 'predicted in room response'? Don't you see the boundary interference related dips around 100 Hz region. The graph itself varies 15 dB between its highest and lowest points. I can assure you it is not flat in that room.
"We can hear distotion in a different way for different frequencies. But anything with these numbers are close to inaudible."
Those THD measurements are useless for the most part. Get the harmonic distortion in terms of the idividual components. then we can talk. If anything is relevant look at the odd order harmonic distortion. For reading more about perception of non linear distortion check, here:
http://www.gedlee.com/Papers/Distortion_AES_I.pdf and
http://www.gedlee.com/Papers/Distortion_AES_II.pdf. This will atleast put things in some context. More important than harmonic distortion (which doesnt correlate much with perceptable distortion) is the intermodulation distortion. Let us look at that and then make claims about low distortion.
"The soundstage of this speaker is limited to the directivity to the front."
No. Can't say without Spinorama. Just looking at KEF R3's spin and making conclusions about this W-W-MT-W-W vertical driver array is useless.
"So if you remove the shadow flare may be it would work sideways(I won’t do it)"
The shadow flare is not there for looks. It is to smoothen out directivity. It could be a bad implementation by KEF. But the idea is this:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...ver-full-range-line-array.242171/post-6526244
Better wavefront expansions leads to better directivity.
"This also means if I play a 40 hz tone, it vibrates equivalent to its time domain equivalent in terms of strokes and low distotion suggests there is no “overhang or swinging” by the drivers meaning in audiophile terms- excellent timing."
Dont even think about this. It is really hard to say about perceptible time domain issues with a impulse response and step response available. So predicting timing without that is of no use.
"The stock sound has some flaws (minor) but with little bit eq it’s tunable to perfection"
Diffraction issues are not solvable with EQ because those are linear time/space varying issues. One will screw up the response with EQ
"High sensitivity- low number of parts in crossover (it’s laughable!) sensibility is high due to less power wastage."
Yeah it is laughable. Sensitivity is not high just because of the crossover. The sensitivity comes from the vertical driver array.
"Driver engineering has taken huge steps further."
Finally I agree with something. Because drivers like these are there:
https://purifi-audio.com/ptt6-5x08-nfa-01/
Conclusion. Many objective parameters don't mean what we think without formal acoustics training. Even then it is a bit hard. Acoustics is bit counter intuitive. Instead of learning everything like this one can just go audition, decide and be happy..