Oppression within the speaker industry and how it can be stopped?


As we all know, speaker companies have been oppressing us audiophiles for a very long time. The question is how it can be stopped? 

The insistence on ''flat as pancake'' response is only one example of this. Some companies offer a bit of a dip in the mids. But as we all know, if we weren't being oppressed we could CHOOSE whatever response we liked. 

The so called linkwitz riley 24db crossover and variations thereof is an evil device which has been going on for a long time in the speaker business. 

Butterworth 12db vilified as dip at crossover. QB3 BB4 ports. constant directivity. The list goes on and on. 

I have even attended speaker demos where I was prohibited from playing my own choice of music cds that I'd brought along. 

The wicked speaker industry must be stopped before its too late. We must demand maximum freedom of choice before THEY bully us into utter submission.
kenjit
No big surprise here, this does not come cheap.
Neither does a Magico come cheap but theyre not even custom tuned are they? 

If mass production is "evil" as you say it is, then only the most wealthy would have access to such bespoke consumer products.
Oh come on that already is true of high end speakers

How is it a benefit to mankind if audio gear was limited to the top one tenth of one percent of people?

High end audio is already very expensive. Custom tuning does not come into the equation even once you get to these prices. So the argument that it would be too expensive is clearly false. If DIY folks can custom tune their speakers without spending a fortune why cant they? The fact is that its just cheaper and easier to do it the way its done currently. Make one design and then mass produce that design and then sell them to the audiofools. 

You are agreeing that there is a conspiracy by implying that CUSTOM TUNING is indeed desirable but that theres a reason it cant be done. So the conspiracy is that the speaker industry is HIDING that fact from us and instead leading us to believe that their NON custom tuned designs are just as good if not better. 
Anyone else imagining kenjit with rainbow hair, a bullhorn, and covered with a "THE END OF THE BUTTERWORTH CROSSOVER IS COMING!" placard?

Word to the wise, crinkle the tinfoil first, it makes for a more fashionable fedora.
Hmmm, I’ll have to ponder that for a while... You writing skills are getting better K.. How’s that?

Yea you’re right... Oppression though.. I guess I’m lucky, spend 89 days in a 4 ft by 4 ft cage, eatin’ cockroaches in your rice.
I became quite the Yoga Expert in that time..

Speakers... oppression.. hmmm, ain’t workin’ for me K. Let’s be a little more careful, AY.. Some may take offence...

But yea, there is a LOT of overpriced, boxes out there.. AND some really nice ones.. Mine for one (actually 2).

Tune your own box, that's what I use to tell all the girls/boys. :-)

Kmini, and KMAX will be up and running by spring...Be patient..

Regards..
For the record, if there is to much BOX tuning, or Flute playing.

We’ll have to tie your hands.. they’re not toys.. :-)

Man oh man am I bad..

Regards..
The fact that one can audition as many different speakers as one cares to seek out and listen to is, in the act itself, "custom tuning" the speakers to your ears. The eyeglasses analogy is only partly relevant; just as no two people have identical vision, no two persons have identical hearing. Further, with the glasses, there is not an infinite number of ways to configure the lenses (the design parameters reside among a limited range of "plus" and "minus" values) just as there are not an infinite number of ways to design a speaker; the design must be developed from an existing finite set of crossover parts. The notion of a "deep state" of speaker manufacturers is just another deep state of confusion.