When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one...


How many have experienced a situation when a more budget oriented speaker has a more preferred overall sound over a higher end speaker, something at 3 or more times the price?  What are your thoughts, experiences and how can you explain this?

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For my office setup, I owned (consecutively) both version 1 and version 2 of the venerable KEF LS50 wireless speakers. Was happy with them at first but after a while they began to grate and sound fatiguing. Sold both and bought a pair of LSA Signature 50s, $600 (one fourth the price of the KEFs). Much nicer. Of course the LSAs don’t have built-in amplifiers and DACs but they don’t need anything fancy to sing, just a decent little desktop amp.

My Tekton Moabs, $4,500, sound better than any other pair of speakers I’ve tried in my listening room, including ones costing two and three times as much.

I now have a pair of Raidhos on the way, a hair over $100,000, that impressed me greatly at two different audio shows. Those may finally outclass the Tektons, but it still might not be night and day. We’ll see (hear).