Many times speakers are bought with "peer" comments dictating what is "good". Now I think your speaker is the most important part of the chain because no matter how expensive of wonderful your electronics are you can't make junk sound great. You can buy pretty cheap amps today that sound really good with moderate priced speakers built right. Just finished going over a set of KPT-456's in my shop and with a Crown XLI800 I have under $2,000 invested in a really good sound. I think people spend absurd amounts of money because they can or because they are always thinking there is something missing and off they go credit cards in hand to find the holy grail. Bad music files, bad room treatment, no DSP and bad advice means bad choices and never satisfied.
Why do folks spend more on electronics than on speakers?
Hello, just curious on this subject. I have seen threads where folks ask for advice on how to allocate their budget and this topic comes up. I also see systems posted on various forums where folks have $10K-$20K in gear driving $2K-$5K in speakers and wonder why. I have traditionally been a speakers first person as that is where I have noticed the greatest differences. For those that allocate more on gear vs speakers what are your reasons? No judgement, I am just interested in hearing another point of view.
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spending money on a passion is like many things in life, it can be done smartly or stupidly, with planning, consideration and knowledge, or on a whim, by bad influence, and with ignorance this balanced against each person’s sense of proportionality, priorities and capability to afford expensive things at whatever level done well, in midst of a well prepped room, a well chosen, well understood existing system, smart money spent can and does make a huge difference all the garbage threads and posts here aside, becoming informed on how to spend ’smart money’ in pursuit of music and its reproduction is at the heart of why this place exists and matters |
@mahlman "One man's ceiling is another man's floor." Paul Simon |
here is some perspective 40 years professional experience
speakers determine the overall level of what you can acchieve
the electronics and source will derive what the speakers are capable of
great speakers can not compensate for difficiencies elsewhere
long story short the electronics preserve the integrity of the signal the better you feed the speakers the better the sound from those loudspeakers
Dave and Troy Audio intellect nj |
Because every upstream upgrade I make reveals itself in my modestly priced speakers (Ohm Walsh 2000 with a pair of Vanderstein 2Wq subs). Speakers I would upgrade to that I believe would be a significant upgrade cost more than I can afford. Electronics and cable upgrades I can manage, for the most part.
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