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Sound quality of Newer versus Older speakers

From a sound quality perspective, is there anything that newer speakers are doing better than older speakers. For reference, I have a pair of Monitor Audio Silver 300s which are amazing me with their ability to balance detail retrieval with an ability to avoid harshness (with the right ancillaries). My subjective perception is that this type of balance between resolution and refinement was more difficult to find in speakers from 20-30 years ago.
calvinandhobbes
alexberger
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Hi @dletch2 ,

I didn't say all new speakers are bad. There are some good modern speakers.
About colored sound it is not true. I'm am not old, just 47.
People who go to classical concerts, play or listen acoustic instruments at home try to make their system sound as natural as possible.
People who listen electronic music have not idea what is natural or colored sound, because nobody know how does it should sound.
 
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mahgister
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People who listen electronic music have not idea what is natural or colored sound, because nobody know how does it should sound.
The only way to tune an audio system acoustically is the human timbre voice after that acoustical instruments...

You cannot tune acoustically a system with commercial pop music and electronica....

Then you are right ....


alexberger
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Yes you are right - human voice is coming first for tuning system.
highend666
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Some say the all new Jern 14EH Mini Monitors with good Subs are right up there with the very best speakers !
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phusis
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@alexberger and @roxy54 --

"So when I go to friends or audio show I always hear compression from most of low sensitive speakers. Even big speakers like Wilson Audio. I feel it like a heavy, strained sound reproduction, unnatural, tiresome. Sound presses and it cause me a discomfort."
I really agree with this. Low sensitivity speakers don’t have the same sense of ease as high efficiency speakers, especially (but not exclusively) horn speakers.

I’d agree with this as well, although some of the "molasses"-like imprinting described, from my experience, is also a by-product of passive cross-overs, like a slight softening of the sound - a bit more smeared and less transparent, even. Most high efficiency speakers are passively configured also, but here the effect appears less pronounced.
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