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?
This had definitely never happened to me. I research the daylights out of stuff… and speakers typically audition many. I take audio purchases very seriously.
In my experience Ascend Acoustic Sierra towers with raal tweeters measured up to $5,000 speakers even so they cost under $3,000. Reasoning is builder has a ton of experience and keeps very low overheads since he does it all through his website with zero advertising expense. It's not rocket science. I have only good things to say about them even so I have moved on to bigger $18,000 speakers.
B&W has been a great example of this. I always found their lower end stuff better then their mid tier. The 680 series just sounded better then the CM series.
Whenever someone tells me that, "Speaker A sounds better than speaker B", I ask in what way? Nine times out of ten they reply that it sounds better in every way which is nearly impossible and reveals what kind of listener they really are. The bottom line, and as previously posted, is that there are many variables besides the prices. Foremost among them, room and system matching.
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