Speaker design customer feedback

I agree with Bigkidz....  what ever the price point the listener needs to say "Wow" or it is just another speaker in a pool of many.   That's the problem with speakers, there are so many to choose from it is mind numbing.     I wish you luck. 

Coherence first: all frequencies come from similar technologies. I can't abide a speaker which presents a piano's top octave one way, and the bottom octave another. ESL's have coherence, Magnepan used to.

Fast: ESL's are the classic. Also ribbons and other planars, plasma.

Undistorted: most speakers use crossovers which could have been scavenged from a dump. It shows, or, more precisely, it sounds that way.

We need speaker designers to take more consideration of the following:

1. Speakers that sound good at low volume. So many only open out at high volumes.

2. Also speakers that don't demand to be situated in free space - in the uk we have small rooms, the average size of a new-build room has declined 20% over the past 20 years, and is now barely 15 square metres. There is no way an average uk room can have a speaker sitting away from the wall.  

3. Reduced bass - again small UK rooms have real problems with bass.  Bass booms in the mass of reflections small rooms have. Speaker designers think people want bass, and I guess many do, but many don’t.  

4. Make the speakers active with digital room correction software built in.  Active speakers are the future. And with digital sound processing built in to the speakers the problems of (2) and (3) above can be overcome.  

The future as I see it for the wider market is a single box streamer/dac/preamp into the active speakers fitted with dsp.  This connected to the TV too for streaming video through the active speakers - it is the future and the speakers are at the heart of it.