When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one...

In my experience Ascend Acoustic Sierra towers with raal tweeters measured up to $5,000 speakers even so they cost under $3,000. Reasoning is builder has a ton of experience and keeps very low overheads since he does it all through his website with zero advertising expense. It's not rocket science. I have only good things to say about them even so I have moved on to bigger $18,000 speakers.

B&W has been a great example of this.  I always found their lower end stuff better then their mid tier.  The 680 series just sounded better then the CM series.  

LOL love how people spend double on speakers vs source. 

Whenever someone tells me that, "Speaker A sounds better than speaker B", I ask in what way? Nine times out of ten they reply that it sounds better in every way which is nearly impossible and reveals what kind of listener they really are. The bottom line, and as previously posted, is that there are many variables besides the prices. Foremost among them, room and system matching.

Zero clue as to what Juanmanuel is saying since he doesn't post his system. Enlighten us, where do you spend your money? Radio shack integrated?