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What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned?

What speaker do you believe are the most overrated and which one do you consider the most overrated?
mrc4u
mr_m
1,900 posts
 
It's amazing  so many people are against the A/B side by side comparison. I too, feel it's one of the great "myth" busters. People who poo-poo A/B comparisons are just burying their heads in the sand.
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ozzy62
3,151 posts
 
Can’t see what anyone sees in B&e’s.  As a say Where’s the Bass.

think SALK In incredibly underrated.  For $6,000, the Song3 Encores best anything in the $20,000 range maybe $30,000 range.
In addition to being an extremely incoherent post, your last statement is laughable. When you can authoritatively say that you have heard every 20,000.00 loudspeaker, it is still a subjective opinion that you have erroneously stated as matter of fact.

Fail ..........
nyaudio98
420 posts
 
Underrated, mm de capo anniv edition...3500 if a s po eaker that is very nice set amp
whitestix
719 posts
 

Beyond a doubt, the least favorite speakers I have ever owned were the KEF LS50's.  I had a 180-wpc Plinius integrated amp which drove them poorly and they were bright and harsh sounding. Of all the speakers I have personally owned, they were simply awful.  My Spatial Audio M4 Triode Masters cover all the bases for me.  I have heard Salk speakers at many shows and I kinda think they are much underrated.  Oh, overrated as well, to my ears, are Harbeth speakers and very much overpriced.  

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MY LIST OF SPEAKERS FROM 1973 TO 2019:

Rectilinear III Highboys (outstanding speakers!)

AR bookshelfs

JBL L100

Electro-Voice Sentry 100's

Spica TC 40's and TC 50's

JSE Infinite Slope 3's

Goetz MS3 Towers (I had them for 20 years, made by a boutique designer)

KEF LS50 (My least-liked speakers among the bunch)

Von Schweikert V22

Usher BE-718

Totem Hawks

SVS Black Towers heard at CAS.

Klipsch Cornwalls (modded to Cornscala's)

Tyler Acoustics Lynbrook's (fine speakers, but way way too big for my room)

Dynaudio A10, A 25, A35

KEF Model 5, 6, 21 and 28?

Blumenstein Orca's

Green Mountain Audio Rio and Eos HX

GR Research LGK

ELAC Debut B6 (didn't care for them much, rockers might prefer them)

Dali Zensor 1 and 3's (both outstanding monitors)

Linkwitz Lxmini's

Spatial Audio Hologram M4 Triode Masters (By leaps and bounds, the finest speakers I have ever had in my system)

Revel M22 (Excellent monitors)

Optimus Pro LX5 (with new woofers from Dayton Audio, these are very musical)

Gallo Strada's (small speakers with a big sound, sounding much like electrostats)



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jouri_knegt
39 posts
 
For me personally the most underrated speaker would be the Alon II. It's an ugly duckling, needs plenty of space. But the sound coming out of that speaker is really special!  Soaring highs, boogie factor and good bass. Also the prices they go for.... If people only knew. It stomps on a lot of competition. 

Overrated is difficult. I would say Sonos. Yeah I know. Also those Jbl 's mono things. They can go loud sure....... B&W 800d3 didn't do it for me either

#Offtopic: Tidal! Just compare Tidal VS Quobuz in sound quality. I was shocked and canceled my Tidal subscription instantly 
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