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

The Room Rules

i was in a friends lab yrs ago and was amazed by the sound of music and I asked him what playing?

he said he built the speaker from parts bought on

Canal St in NYC and designed the cabinet! all for

$20!

Where I live now I have a 12’x14’ room

that sounds great with a pair of Elac 2.0/B6.2

power hungry speakers!

zero fatigue 

• Playback at higher volumes with considerable less distortions.
• Increased transparency (openness).
• Deeper bass response.

The Room Rules

i was in a friends lab yrs ago and was amazed by the sound of music and I asked him what playing?

he said he built the speaker from parts bought on

Canal St in NYC and designed the cabinet! all for

$20!

Great post.... thanks....

Not much especially if your a “DIY guy”  with loudspeakers.

Proper room acoustics (treatments with broadband absorption, bass trapping, diffusion) can make speaker topology even more irrelevant …

It is precisely whati did not with only good  passive treatment but more powerfully with full active mechanical room control...

I verified what you just say...