Why are so many companies like harbeth making old speakers designs and charging thousends?


Hi everyone I am a little confused about the speaker market. I had been two dealers that sell totally different products. The one I had been to which I bought my forests from sells Totem And Monitor Audio and B&W. though I went to the other that sells Harbeth And audio note speakers which they recommended me buying. And the problem I have trouble understanding Is when I spend thousands on a speaker. Especially my next big purchase. That has no real new technology and is the size of my dads old conerwalls and never use to cost Thousands to build. With no technological advancements. to a product such as the totem that is small compact and modern for the wife approval , and to be more exact. The new Element line and technologically advanced like the torrent driver. Which I can get the same speaker as the same cost or less of the audio note and Harbeth and dose not need to take up the whole room or look like the 70's. Whats your opinion? Would you buy a product that is a 30 year old design that costs 5 times as more with the only diffinceses as upgraded silver wire and upgraded crossover components. To a thousand dollar woofer that is machined not stamped and has so much magnetic flux that it ca lift a car and no crossover?
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I once heard the  Super duper HL5+ plus with Lyngdorf. Wild demo in that it fixed the Harbeths. It would behoove them to mechanically align the drivers, which of course wouldn't make them HL5s anymore.
"...and Heaven is in your mind..."

Art is in the eye of the beholder, as is the sound to the ear of the listener.

One will obtain or strive for that which fulfills their goals within their means.

Since that's all pretty relative and subject to all manner of parameters that can be discussed Endlessly with no real substantial conclusion, IMHO...

Do what you like at the price point you can live with.  Spend more of your time listening....less time fretting about perfection.  I suspect we'd all be happier campers if we did so.  'Perfect' seems to be an elusive little sprite, dancing on your shoulders, whispering "What if..."

Fly swatter the little twit...;)  Get back to the basics, 'listening' as opposed to 'art of listening'.  The latter is mere recursion, an exercise in frustration.  You will never be happy always searching....
Before I got a pair of Harbeths, I went through an anti-cone ’n dome phase.  I thought a box with drivers was old technology - which it is - but thought more recent technologies would always be better.  With an open mind I’ve come full circle and much better off...

IMO Hartbeths sound better than their old school looks would suggest - but I can see how someone would question purchasing a pair on their looks - with all of the new sleek speakers out there.  But they have top quality components and highly skilled implementation of those components.  Like most speakers, the cabinetry is a big chunk of the cost, and the workmanship is first rate.

They have professional pedigree, and that’s just what speakers look like in a studio, post production suite, or broadcast booth - Alan Shaw sticks to a formula he knows and it works for some people..