Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :)

The downsizing of mind all around will not result in a growing  interest  by older people or young adult to higher forms of meanings through music...

Music is like maths in a way, generally we must learn it young to enjoy it deeply...Under 14 years old... There is exception as i begun to love maths at 19 when i quit all bad maths teachers......😊 Maths is more like poetry than accountability ...

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I think you are right for the availability of better design at lower cost...

This is why my thread make sense...

Add to this fact the necessary better acoustics understanding nowadays and other mechanical and electrical noise floor improvement, audiophile experience can be cheap costs...

But we must pay the price now in study time and experiments...

A good audiophile system is not free nor plug and play even today...

I have three low-cost systems in various rooms and a "main" one in my living room.

I think I can safely say that the low-cost systems sound remarkably good for the price - better than anything I had when I was in college (late 1970s) and in the 1980s. And hey, I enjoyed those 1970s and 1980s systems just fine.

Modern speakers - at all price points - have made sonic strides. Modern electronics and manufacturing techniques have brought down the cost of entry systems.

Now, if we could only interest Gen Z in audio and get a sizeable population on the path to being audiophiles and supporting the manufacturers

Well, the same set of quality speakers will basically sound the same regardless of amp, cables, power cords, etc. So it's not surprising. 

Op I have 2 main systems where I compare my low cost system, musicality and musical involvement is very close. But liveness and hearing more that’s where my main 2 systems shine. Low cost systems can only do so much not enough to beat my main systems. What the Andra and my KLH does the ELac can’t.

For sure what my Tannoy dual gold concentric could do , never my small active 4 inches woofer from M-audio even heavily modified as i did, can do it...😁

But guess what ! 😊

Not knowing acoustics and nothing about audio at the times i owned the Tannoy , i enjoy more right now and i had more acoustics balanced factors experience with these very low cost M-Audio speakers compared to the better refined design of the mythical Tannoy which anyway i never learned to use at their optimum ( i was frustrated by the sound changing amp and never thinking about the Tannoy embeddings in the house/room). 😁

The main point of this thread is this : knowledge most of the time beat price tags and if it is not the case , basic electrical, mechanical and acoustical knowledge can anyway takes any system to his optimum workings and we can bodly go where no one had gone before with the same speakers... 😊

Thanks a lot for your informative post  which will add weight to the idea that money alone dont define audio experience ....

Op I have 2 main systems where I compare my low cost system, musicality and musical involvement is very close. But liveness and hearing more that’s where my main 2 systems shine. Low cost systems can only do so much not enough to beat my main systems. What the Andra and my KLH does the ELac can’t.

I am not amazed but I can appreciate a low cost system that sounds nice.  The decision comes when something really outperforms and then you have to consider spending a little more for that sound.

Enjoy.