+1 @blisshifi Concise, accurate, helpful answer.
There are many expensive things I don't like.
Why would speakers be an exception?
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Very accurate and concise @blisshifi if my add the measurement of quality is not always price. |
This is quite common in my experience. Over the years and after having attended many Hi-Fi shows I’ve very rarely come away thinking that the most expensive speakers were ever the best on show. The one exception was the Avantgarde Trios which imaged and scaled exceptionally.
At the same time I can’t ever recall the cheapest speakers ever sounding the best either, although last year someone was selling a pair of large bookshelves (in Baltic birch cabinets) which were rocking way out of their shockingly low price range (<£600).
They weren’t the best in show, that might have been the Kudos Titans (£17k), but it did illustrate the huge disconnect often seen between price and performance. Just why this happens so often isn’t easy to explain but I have noticed that really expensive speakers usually tend to be more revealing in one area more than others and this often works against them. The result can be that they not only reveal the faults in the recording they often end up highlighting issues within their own performance too. Increased resolution can be a 2 way sword unless a careful sonic balance is not also maintained.
https://www.hifipig.com/mycetias-vulcanian-loudspeakers/
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