Law of Accelerating Returns

I don't live in the reality that audio reviewer live in. It's important to remember that TAS is a magazine that has taken to calling $15,000 power amplifiers and $18,000 loudspeakers "bargains". There was a time when the magazine didn't have to resort to obscure and convoluted reasoning to justify what its writers heard.

A "bargain" is more of an absolute description of worth as opposed to the relative term "a good value". A bargain also has a much wider time window than a good value.

I agree the the Vandersteen 5a is a good value, but it is not as good a value as the Quatro, nor does it represent the bargain value of the 2ce. The loudspeakers cover a ten-fold price span, but they don't represent a 10x increase in performance and I doubt the products generate a 10x increase in listener enjoyment. I speculate and I could be wrong.

Zd542, go listen to the lineup and then look at their pricelist. To me it's obvious, but as I said earlier, I could be wrong.