Current speaker threads are boring

I'll make what I guess is an obvious point. If you're going to have "giant-killers," you've got to have giants. We should be grateful for the Wilsons, Magicos, YGs, MBLs, and Rockports of the world, companies that have cultivated a customer base (well-heeled, and willing to spend large sums for all the right reasons and sometimes the wrong ones) that can support their efforts to develop the best loudspeakers they can—even if a great deal of expensive engineering/manufacturing is applied to deriving only a small incremental improvement. I've spent a fair amount of time with some of the designers of these speakers. They don't build pricy products to cynically gouge rich people. They build them because they're driven to fulfill an engineering concept, whatever it takes.

That said, I (and many of my fellow audio writers, a despised bunch on many forums like this) truly love nothing better than a relatively low-priced product that achieves 95% (or 100%!) of what the famous expensive brands achieve. I don't think it's necessary to bitterly dismiss stuff that non-oligarchs can't afford just because it's not a good value for most of us—reviewers included.

Andrew Quint
TAS

"For me a great speaker, regardless of price, simply gets out of the way so quickly that I lose my attention of them and I am instead drawn to the music alone"

I like this.😃

Kenny.

Andrew, how is JM Labs Grand Utopia? 
And I don't think there are "giant killers", not to mention the stupid and violent language of this phrase, it's a myth for poor people.

I like this forum even though I'm a playwright in a small country so, poor as they come. Nevertheless there's a wealth of knowledge here that you don't get on other forums once you know who to listen to. Almarg, for instance: I've learnt tons off that guy. When I first got into this lunacy about ten years ago I realised how on to it Al was and read everything that he'd posted. Schubert, Mapman, and Atmasphere (among others) have also helped a great deal. Thanks to their knowledge, and despite my relative poverty, I've been able to put together a vintage system (for next to nothing, maybe $2,000) that in the late eighties would have cost me the inflation-adjusted sum of $10,000+. It sounds fantastic, and I couldn't be happier, despite having OCD. My lack of money has actually helped in this: You have to read broadly and understand how music reproduction works before you make your decisions, rather than plonking down tons of money, endlessly changing components and getting frustrated because you missed the chapter on speaker-room interface and treatments. 

I have no problem with people discussing $50,000 speakers but I think this forum is (and hopefully continues to be) much more than that.