Stewie
The point of diminishing returns paints a very broad swatch and applies to speakers too.
As with any other piece of the puzzle in a system, speakers as well need careful consideration, not just a greater portion of the budget or overall costs. Speakers simply are important. No more so however than the rest of the rigs parts.
In fact it took me only a short time at a dealers showroom to discover one day not long ago, that it is definitely Whats up front that counts more so than mere speakers. Im not dissin speakers here nor their significance, just pointing out they only reproduce a signal given to them. Give them a lesser quality signal, thats what they will reproduce, theyll not make it better.
Elite
Your not preaching to the choir here, but to those folks on the right rear most back pew
. Those just there on the end of it
The other 98% of the congregation isnt shelling out $100K for HT. Ill guarantee you that. Obviously youre too close to that small portion to see plainly the rest.
98% of the people I know have much greater incomes than do I. Some are well into the millions of $$$ too. Enormous homes, beautiful cars, nice people too, by and large. Theyll buy a 60 inch plasma, a receiver, disc player and tiny speakers
. Or just opt for a big plasma & Bose sound system.
Though they all have the means they do not have the bug. The inclination. The desire to drop lots of dough into a home theater. Of those that do, their other halfs wont allow it.
Those item removes still more of those with the means, from getting involved. Desire. They would mostly as soon as drop a couple hundred on a round of golf, or lunch, rather than check out the latest DVD player.
What I found in dealing with the masses also is the issue of plug and play simplicity. Fewer and fewer make the cut when operational tasks of the rig are even superficially reviewed, as theyll opt for ease over performance near every time.
But then you know all that of course
. Or you would have numerous locations and youd be hiring as many installers as you could get your hands on.
BTW
each of them has been to my home and are summarily impressed with my own gear, until they hear of its costs. Ive long since quit mentioning what I spend on things
especially what I pay for wires now and then, let alone the components themselves. It is funny though to see their expressions when I quote them the retail for one of my extension cords. Every time, its eyes widen, mouths open, and heads shake, followed by a moment of disbelief and temporary deafness, as usually they will ask me to repeat myself saying, How much? For a cable?
Its like the robot from Lost In Space
. For them, That does not compute!.
