Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference?

I’ve never jumped off a skyscraper either but having a basic grasp of Newton’s laws I can make a guess what would happen if I did. I don’t understand how anyone can’t look at speaker measurements and the components they are made from and get a pretty good idea what they will sound like. Is that to bold a statement?

Volti Razz?????? LOL  Really

@djones51

The answer is very simple, people think in different ways. My partner is literally a genius, her tests in verbal intelligence are way up there. She got a full scholarship to Brown University, PhD… two Masters degrees. Every time she walks out the door she walks in the opposite direction of the car… gets lost every where. She couldn’t throw a 3D chart into her mind an flip it around if her life depended on it. I can, easily.

My former boss of $10 billion company could not visualize a simple two dimensional x - y chart. But put a fine print table of hundreds numbers in front of him and within about three seconds he would want to know why one number was off by two cents.

Different people visualize and process information differently.

What does 2% sound quality improvement sound like?  Is this based on 100% or 110% sound quality?

@danager

Yes, % of sound quality are completely meaningless between different people. It is completely dependent on your own values. To me, the more sensitive my system is, the more a small change makes a difference… so diminishing returns doesn’t happen, until I reach my maximum investment. If my investment limit was $250K, then that is where my diminishing returns would kick in.

The more heroically built cabinets will "disappear" more easily and have a more stable and holographic image and soundstage presentation. As far as wide bandwidth is concerned, that's not guaranteed. There are many very costly speakers that are still limited in the lowest frequencies. Also, depending on the design, dynamics may or may not be superior to horn speakers that cost less.