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?

agwca

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I think I am about to test the OP’s theory out soon with this speaker.

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I was planning to replace my 10-year-old KEF LS50’s with a bookshelf speaker around $10K USD. However, the speaker listed above has a driver that I love on my headphones, and I have gear that would work with that driver on bookshelf’s. It is not a cost issue but a sonic issue on this choice.

I am cheating here since the high end speaker I wanted was the baby brother to the Yamaha NS5000, the Yamaha NS3000, and I have not heard it. The NS5000 I have heard and thought it was great.

My son (or maybe the wife) recently put a hole in the driver of my circa 2012 KEF LS50. So I got the $1500 LS50 Meta to replace it, since I always want to have a LS50 around. I loved the sound of the LS50 Meta so much that I cancelled the plans to buy the $9K Yamaha NS3000. This was for a small room with KEF KC62 sub.

I explain this phenomena by the fact that the LS50 Meta sounded so fine.

@steve59 This is how I plan on saving my Blades from kids (and wife).

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