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$2500 speaker threshold

Hello everyone,

Recently I was reading the latest edition of Robert Harley's The Complete Guide to High End Audio. In an early chapter he refers to a "significant" disparity in quality between speakers selling for just under $2500 & selling selling for just over $2500. I'd never heard of this before.

I realize that quality is supposed to improve with price, but Harley was clear in stating that the $2500 threshold marked a larger gap in quality than would be seen in other price-point differences. Unfortunately he didn't elaborate on just what made the >2500s better than the <$2500s.

Anyone know what that might be about?

andy
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magfan
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Ridiculous assertion.
Gems are found below 2500$ and clunkers above.

Than of course, personal opinion and means certainly come into play. The poor starving student will spend 2500$ or LESS on a complete system.

Everyone sets the cost / benefit bar where they will.

As a matter of fact Marty, the Vandy WAS compared in test to the than current Magnepan 1.6 different strokes for different folks. Both were around 2k at that time.
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