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Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago

Does speaker technology really change that much?  As I'm listening to my Klipsch Heresy's in a bedroom setup, I decided to look up to see what $3k or so could buy me today used and was shocked to see the speakers I used to drool over, when I was done looking at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition ;), were available for a quarter or less of the money.

Revel Ultima
Sonus Faber
JM Lab Mezzo 

And more, are all available to buy used.

Seriously these were speakers I would daydream about.  How do they sound today compared to a speaker that you would spend $3k on new or even a few years old?  How could these $10k speakers from a time I can still remember, really sound like a $3k speaker?  My Klipsch's remind me that speakers even older and cheaper are irreplaceable to me, so why wouldn't I spend $3k for one of my old heroes?

What am I missing here?



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mozartfan
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Does speaker technology really change that much?


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Yes and No
I've owned some of the very best small size speakers the Seas Thors past 16 yrs,,
Now that I own a   NEW er developed WBer.
I never thought I'd actually own one or even love this design.
You see actually this design goes back to Berlin and Chicago, late 1920's. 
No xover /high sens design.

So yes this speaker design did evolve and develope.
Whereas the xover types you are refering to , are same old, same old, same old.
Same low sens.
Same big heavy boxes
Same xovers sapping energy from the source
same crappy midrange. 
mozartfan
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No actually 20 yrs ago
I never in my 
WILDEST
Dreams
Thought
nor dreamt 
I would ever dump my Millennium Tweeter for a  WBer.
Never

sometimes dreams do come true,,even IF you nevber dreamed it  would happen

Does that make sense??
Millennium = mightmare
WBer fulfills my hopes, wishes dreams. There THAT makes sense
The WBer Audiophile
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