Blindfold Speaker testing


So if we made a  experiment where a  group of seasoned audiophiles had to choose  which speaker is best over all, 
6 brands all hidden behinda  curtain.
5 top dawgs in the xover box low sens design and 1 of the high sens PS design. How do you think the results will come out?
But we will not tell the group what speakers are behind the curtains, They will have no idea 1 of the speakers is Point Source. 
How do you think the, or lets say which 1 speaker do you think would come out on top?
No lets do this, Lets give the  group a  list of 5 speaker brands, Walsh, Wilson, Tannoy, and 2 others which are very popular, like Joseph with the Seas. 
and 1 more,
The mystery speaker is not listed, so they have no idea what speaker it is.
The ? speaker is the high sens Point Source.
Now Richard Gray hosts this *guess which speaker event* as he is a  master of these types of gimmicks and  has seasoned audiophiles fooled every single time.
Which speaker do you think will make top of the list in results??
I know.
The Mystery Speaker.
Then Richard pulls the curtain and reveals the winner.
 SURPRISEE
Got ya
The Hifi Guy


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music piece etc. that it is difficult to tell the difference.

Oh for sure, Some  retailers have the sound room so perfectly set up, you'd buy a  set of Bose.
Test cds make a  huge impression on the unsuspecting, room treatment, thick carpet, 
Its a  trap. 
It took sometime to get a  understanding in these cheap full range, At the 1st I loved brand X,,,well then onto to brand Y,,hummm, Y was superior, last I added a  david Louis, 4 inch, blew away the other 3 full range.
Now  I can hear the DL is OK, not worth any more than the $200 I paid, = You get what you pay for.
But surely these DL 4;s offer a (much) better sound stage than your average xover box thing. 
There is something about these full range technology which require no xover, that allows more of the music to pass effortlessly through the speaker.
xover things can not compete. 
I am quite sure the David Louis higher end speakers are even better, But I'm not interested in 2nd rate any longer. I am going for  The ~~top dawgs~
At this point , why settle for less?
Cost me about $500-$600  in the FR testing experiement.
With that completed, now i am fully convinced high sens/full range is the only speaker for my music. 
Will they beat out the Seas Excel in the bass? 
Can't say. 
Or the Magnoxov horn in the highs?
 
We have to keep experiementing til we find the ideal equation.
And we share our findings here. 
If there was a dome tweeter that made mids like the 1929 Colortura, I;'d have it in my system. 
Only a  high sens can reproduce these fine mids. 
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Look there was a  time longgg agio when the Audiogoners were like into the latest/newest/best in its class components.
Things were different back then. 
Although I will say this forum has been heavily biased towards the box/xover things. 
My testimiony is those things are dinasuars.
This judgement is based on 40 yrs off/on interest in all things hifi audio. 
The final component to making my sysytem truly world class high fidelity is just months away, 
Would have been sooner had I not  made a  very poor decision to jump into a tube fliiping business. Buy low/sell higher. 
Lost $1200-$1500. 
+ The upgrades to the Thors set me  back $1200++. Some of this may be salvagable, as if the Vox do not put out bass that can surpass the W18E001's, well the Dual W18's will be the bass section. 

Any-hoot
If we  held a  ~~Guess the speaker~~~ audition, its my guess the 2 high sens would have stood out. And if we did a  2nd such Guess Test, with the big guns, 
speakers over $20k - $100k. 
WEll now we are into the big horn deals, (which are not wife friendly),,,and brought in the  the 2 labs making Feild Coils, my guess is they would place top in the Big Dawgs class. 
End results would be:
Shootout twix the top horns vs Field Coils, 
Big box/xover things will be shown clearly as *impaired, faulty imaging*.
Honestly.