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The conclusion I've reached about speakers

After years of listening to box speakers the conclusion I have come to is that:

All speakers sound the same

A big speaker does more bass and goes lower. A bookshelf gives no bass and cant go as loud. 

Any other differences are either imaginary or DELIBERATELY contrived to make them sound better to the unsuspecting buyer.

The ONLY other differences aside from sound quality are the price and appearance. Prices can vary substantially and so can the way a speaker looks.

In other words, everything we thought about speakers is all wrong. 
kenjit
oldhvymec
5,101 posts
 
My oh my, all the name callin’, Jealousy ALWAYS brings unkind words...

I know we’re better than this.. LOL

Kmini and KMAX are off the drawing board and actual cut boards now.

Kmini is in the shape of a tombstone, yup.. At the end of your life K you can have them both filled with concrete. You can put them at BOTH ends for the final act of confusion.

I think when you get to heaven you’ll be blessed with perfect hearing, yup!

No need for speakers anymore, Besides mostly Acapella anyways, a few thousand strings and of course a Ram’s Horn.

Everyone knows God loves Jazz! Just no Yoko Ono singin’ in heaven.. That’s for sure.. Heaven’s only rule, no Yoko Ono Singin’. Yoko Ono yes, her singin' NO!!!

That’s in the other place.... :-)

Regards
allenf1963
281 posts
 
@oldhvymec:

Everyone knows God loves Jazz! Just no Yoko Ono singin’ in heaven.. That’s for sure.. Heaven’s only rule, no Yoko Ono Singin’. Yoko Ono yes, her singin' NO!!!
"Turning back the clocks and adding an extra hour to 2020 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album."

high-fidelity-connoisseur
15 posts
 
@kenjit you just sound bitter towards everyone who owns really nice loudspeakers. why?
mcmvmx
108 posts
 
All box speakers even though they share similarities being box speakerd they obviously do no sound the same . A proac dose not sound like a paradigm or energy speaker for that matter . All small box speakers are limited in their ultimate loudness as a floorstanding normally will sound louder and with more freedom to explore loudness . But they are all box speakers which are construed by the same limitations from the small ones to the large floorstanding speakers 

tk21
237 posts
 
"If the speaker designer decided to do a 2db rise in response around 6-10khz you will hear more brightness. But that doesn't make it better does it? That doesnt justify the price being $50k does it? No it does not."

Maybe not, but the first sentence contradicts the original post.
If a designer can do that, and if you do hear more brightness as a result, then it cannot be true that all speakers sound the same. Furthermore, if the designer can engineer that difference in brightness, surely other differences can be designed, for example in bass response or directivity.
It's a separate question whether the SQ differences are significant enough to justify big price differences.

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