When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one...
How many have experienced a situation when a more budget oriented speaker has a more preferred overall sound over a higher end speaker, something at 3 or more times the price? What are your thoughts, experiences and how can you explain this?
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.
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.
I feel the issue is we are not getting close to maxing out the speaker. I have a few systems. My cheap BestBuy insignia speakers sound so good hooked up to my 200 watt amp. I can’t turn it all the way up but it sounds incredible. My main speakers also sound great because I did not go so far beyond my system. Infact, I am well below what you would think I should have.
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