Why don't they get respect? Well, I'll flip the question: have you seen any other speaker that can go on for a long thread and not have any real haters out there, but many lovers?
Maybe by respect you mean in the current high end scene of North America and the magazines. I'll answer why there is not constant talk there:
1. No big advertising in high end journals.
2. Not some new company claiming to have reinvented physics, claiming to have a genius designer the likes of which audio has never seen.
3. Not claiming to have INVENTED something new.
4. No crazy made up physics stories, the market loves those science and physics defying stories more than real physics and science. The reviewers buy into the made up stuff and the consumers do. Fiction is much more fun than reality to the average layman.
5. Old company so no chance a reviewer can act as if he "discovered" them,and no consumer can feel like he is a pioneer among consumers that discovered the secret nobody else knows about.
6. The forced death of horn speakers in America by influential revisers in the 80's: you know the mantra, "horns don't image, horns are bright, horns quack, horns honk". We in this thread know that this is as ridiculous as saying "I have heard Thiels, they are too bright, so all cone speakers are bright". But nobody ever accused the public or the high end audiophiles in particular as being particularly logical or not being gullible.
The above certainly is not a conclusive list, but it's a start.
Maybe by respect you mean in the current high end scene of North America and the magazines. I'll answer why there is not constant talk there:
1. No big advertising in high end journals.
2. Not some new company claiming to have reinvented physics, claiming to have a genius designer the likes of which audio has never seen.
3. Not claiming to have INVENTED something new.
4. No crazy made up physics stories, the market loves those science and physics defying stories more than real physics and science. The reviewers buy into the made up stuff and the consumers do. Fiction is much more fun than reality to the average layman.
5. Old company so no chance a reviewer can act as if he "discovered" them,and no consumer can feel like he is a pioneer among consumers that discovered the secret nobody else knows about.
6. The forced death of horn speakers in America by influential revisers in the 80's: you know the mantra, "horns don't image, horns are bright, horns quack, horns honk". We in this thread know that this is as ridiculous as saying "I have heard Thiels, they are too bright, so all cone speakers are bright". But nobody ever accused the public or the high end audiophiles in particular as being particularly logical or not being gullible.
The above certainly is not a conclusive list, but it's a start.
