Are advances in technology making speakers better?
B&w every few years upgrades there speaker line and other manufacturers do this to. But because I have the earlier version does this mean it's inferior? Cable manufactures do the same thing.
How much more effort is required too perfect a speaker? my speaker is several years old and all the gear and the speaker are all broken in. And now I'm being told to upgrade.
I am so confused what should I do?
@grislybutter Excite - meaning appealing to a potential new market.
Evoke - going back to the loyal base for the classic Dynaudio sound the loyalists have always loved. "Evoke-ing" the great memories of past Dynaudio lines...
@curtdr thanks for sharing. Ya newer and more "exciting" and different does not always translate into long term happiness. Everything new always fades...I'll repeat another old saying..."If it ain't broke..." right?! |
Maybe we are disagree on the word technology. I consider material science and changes in design (dimensions and configurations technology). Not just say changing from a cone based to a “cube” based for instance. Yes, cones with magnets, ribbon, electrostatic… there and not completely new concepts. The Amati use “paper” cones… but they are in no way the paper cones of the 1950’s, just like the magnets. Sure they choose voicing, but the speed and resolution is technology dependent. |
I don't think we disagree. The technology is important. I just think the particular sound the designer is shooting for is much more important to the sound. One can get very close to any particular sound chosen with technology from the past. With the hyper-detailed sound of some speakers, the past, might mean only a decade or two back, with the kind of sound of the Amati, slightly older technology will do. As to speed and resolution, there are plenty of older drivers that can achieve this while still sounding warm and relaxed like your Sonus Faber Amati drivers, but the ones I can think of are pretty expensive and much more impractical and certainly cannot be packaged as beautifully as your speaker (e.g.,Jensen field coil M-10 drivers). That is not to say that the design of such speakers is easy--it takes a lot of knowledge, experience and experimentation to achieve the kind of sound that Sonus Faber achieves. That design, and correctly employing whatever technology is available, is the main reason these speakers deliver the kind of sound that you and I like. |
@moonwatcher you need to listen to a large Advent. @ghdprentice , I know you are right about high tech workers in general. Loudspeakers are not high tech. Anybody with a table saw can make one. Not necessarily a good one, true. |
@mijostyn I did get to hear the large Advent at a small mom and pop stereo store near NC State in the late 1970s or early 1980s. All us poor students lusted after those and the ones from maybe Polk that looked like large coffins. We half expected the grills to open and Count Dracula to come out. |
