Another part of the equation is there seems to be a rather high jump in price of high end audio components. Everything seems to cost quite a bit more nowaday.
What I’ve learned over my years of listening and purchasing audio equipment is somewhere during all this you just have to draw a line and purchase the best equipment you can afford and sounds great to you and be happy. Take some time save for years to upgrade. Yes there’s all types of better speakers and all but one can never keep up unless you have a money tree out back.
Even great and frugal engineering talent like Jim T have to deal with inflation. The 2.4 cabinet performs poorly against some of its more modern competitors which as they are still in business subject to inflationary pressures. A study on beating inflation are the Vandy model 1 and 2. No flames please, I am a Thiel fan and until very recently owned a pair of 2.3 +
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