It sounds like you have a love hate relationship with YG. Get a divorce.
Dirty little secret of Pedigreed, decades old Speaker line - no one will address
For decades ever since it was first launched, all high end competitors have made major revisions to their midrange drivers. Yet YG Acoustics has done so - zero times. It still has the dubious, aluminum cone tech they first introduced.on day one. Their rationale for their supposedly superior construction has been completely rejected by all other companies who have neverconsidered considering imitating it. They almost seem to be aspiring to copy Paradigm's entry level models (a co. that has ditched them for Beryillium on anything more premium). All while improving the frequency extremes only. It certainly looks like they're endlessly, dead set on proclaiming it's somehow a feature & not a bug & eternally racing down this dead end. Their U.S. distributor has hired their sales director away to sell a competing brand they ALSO distribute, Vivid - that does have a far more sophisticated midrange driver & does it eve outsell YG. In one of the distributor's online videos sent out free in their newsletter, the former YG sales guru, proclaims he has never felt nearly so engaged with the music - a clear knock to his old co. YG. The owner, of said distributor standing right beside him, agreeing & not saying a word to disagree. YG's response is to update the frequency extremes only, yet again & move down market to create a less expensive line. Even B&W replaced & updated their midrange driver tech, with their continuum. One of the strangest, most determined, longest running, self sabotaging mrkting decisions I've seen in high end audio. There must be the most peculiar, Why animating this but I can't imagine what it would be that remotely serves them. Can you?
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@john1 , one last chance to answer the question lest you be labeled a lame internet troll. |
Well, at least they don’t use staples to hold the speaker together...LOL. If they are getting the frequency response and transient response from aluminum that they want, then why bother ever changing it? They have invested heavily in the process. Once engineers get "buy-in" from marketing and from the head honchos to invest in say an expensive CNC machine to implement designs, they aren’t going to stop using it willy-nilly unless there is some huge payoff in sonic benefits and increased sales to justify it. |
csmgolf, I agree with your assessment of the sound of YG and B&W speakers. YG does get voicing right, it is just that there is something I don't really love about the sound--a kind of "dryness." Still I respect their speakers. B&W, as you and I agree, get basic voicing wrong and do a whole lot of other things I don't like. But, different speakers appeal to different tastes and priorities so I don't dismiss them outright, much less accuse them of betraying the industry by their choice of technological approach. The end result is what matters, not what technology is employed, or for that matter, how the speaker measures. There are so many elements to the design of a speaker that it really matters what choices one makes for a combination of elements, not so much how each element performs individually. It is often the case that something old, and technically inferior is actually the better choice is a particular system design. I know a builder of amps who gets back some of his amps which were "improved" with newer and much more costly parts. He chose parts based on how they sound in the particular circuit and there were certain cheaper parts that sounded better. This is a common thing. About 20 years ago, another builder was in a bit of a panic because a cheap potentiometer was no longer being made and he could not find a replacement he likes. The stuff he builds is ultra premium, so price was not an issue, it was the particular way this cheap pot functioned in his gear. |
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