Best Floorstanding Speakers Buyers Guide 2023 !

No Rockport speakers in this buyers guide?! Blasphemous ! 

"The Acora cabinets are made from gabbro, not granite."

... According to the Acora Acoustics website, the SRC-2 loudspeakers are made from granite.

That’s “granite “ from the stone business as in countertops. In a scientific classification, the cabinets are not granite per se. Lots of stuff gets called “granite “ that isn’t.

The stonework is Impeccable. But the name matters in terms of understanding acoustic proportions as the materials are different.

I heard the Acora speakers at the Pacific Audio Fest last summer and they sounded very good. They were in a large room which made them look small but they produced some of the best sound at the show.

I've been to three audio shows in the last several years and I've concluded that I don't care what speakers are made of. I also don't care if they use 4th order crossovers or if they deposit diamond dust on their tweeters in a cyclotron particle accelerator. I've heard exotic speakers that sound great and I've heard conventional speakers that sound great. I've also concluded that speaker prices do not correlate well to their sound quality. I could easily live with the Acoras based on what I heard but there are a lot of other speakers these days that sound fantastic - many for far less money than the Acoras.

@ronboco +1  Any list like this is always going to miss a few outstanding candidates but leaving out any Rockport speakers gives this exercise a a pretty big credibility problem. The other glaring omission is the MBL 101 E Mk. II.

Before they collapse in a laughing attack from seeing people actually spending such nutty amounts on equipment (a whole INDUSTRY is milking those fools). 
 

@kraftwerkturbo 

What speakers should we be buying?

How should we go about researching buying speakers?

Who exactly are you calling ”fools”?