The lion's share of my listening and auditioning has been under that imposed threshold of $15k. But it's hard for me to see any loudspeaker costing more than $1k as potentially audiophile.
Maybe be its hard for the OP to get many posts about loudspeakers north of that line because there are so few buyers in that market. Also, if you're in that market maybe you're less budget conscious and as such don't need to post and research as much as those buying lesser value speakers.
I for one have speakers just south of $4k and think the opposite--so many magazine reviews and posts involve 5-figure products that I'm not likely to budget for.
You probably hsve have a fair point but economics and market forces may explain it.
