Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants


Speakers  hold the Kingship in our overall  audio systems. 
I think my recent posts have substaniated  this thesis, well at least my opinion of sorts.
This OP  came to me after reading  through some of (most of what is too deep for my understanding) 
pedro's 
topic
**Why is science a  starting point, yet not the end point?*
Meaning science gives us all sorts of parimeters, specs, graphs and such. Most of which we have no clue how to interpret, 
All we ae concerned is , **how does the speaker actually sound**.

Pedro suggests science has let us down, that science, if it was so intelligent, why can't science tell us which speaker is the superior and which the inferior sound???
Obvioulsy science is not the end all /be all.
Its only a  tool, human sensibilities come in  at the very end to say
Yea 
or worse
Nay
I say nay
to all/eversy xover design in the fq's ,,ohh say 800hz = 15khz.
Yeah I know thats a  massive chuck of our music.
As many of you know i make very long winded posts 
But actually I reduce them to make them more readable and so folks don't lose  interest. 
~~~So cut to the chase.
We accept high tech in every aspect of our lives.
You name it, super high tech is there,. Had you told us back in 1965, folks would be walking around with telephones, sending pics/videos,,we'd all laugh you at your face  as scifi fantasy.

~~~Long story short.

The new  wide band /high sensitivity speaker technology. What gives?
Why the denial it exists?
Why the fear to inquisite?
Why the lack of interest?
Why the rejection?

Speakers  will crown your system with beauty Or else render it as distortion/low fidelity.

Tweak/,od/upgrade all you want, at how much you care to spend $$$$$ ($40K!!!) on cables etc. 
Ain;'t going to make hardly even a  miniscle gain in sonics, if the speakers are ~~faulty~~  due to  low sensitivity.
Bass woofers, I'll grant low sens Seas and Scaspeaks high end woofers  a  stunning succcess.
Above 800hz,  I have issues with any driver neededing a  xover.
I tag these fq's with xovers. The Wet Blanket sound. Sounds mechanical, like   compressed music,, comming from a  box.
Squeezed, contorted, tiny soundstage, strained fq's  if vol is over 10 oclock. = fatigue/Coloration  in abundance.  
Many fq's of the source, missing in action. 
I am not suggesting  these new wide band is for everyones taste. Not at all. Only that we should at least give these wide band a   consideration as a  possible alternative to our old  traditional ideas.

Inqusisitiveness is a good thing in  all things audio. 
Without  a  healthy  curiousity, we putrefy , stagnate.
 Even  Worse
we might miss out on the super high fidelty we all hope to hear one day in our systems by this neglect  of the new high technology in speaker design. . 

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mozartfan
If vinyl is a source then there are a whole slew of other integration issues to deal with there between tonearm, cart, and amp.  
Digital front ends are not nearly as complicated to get set up well for good sound.

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Agree there, My tech geek has some audiophiles that spend big bucks ona  phono set up, 
= No thanks, I'm a  poor audiophile.
Ck iut the new high tech JFET opamps off Ebay, Really sweet. 
These are the best of the new breed opamps. 
Ck out my YT vid above to see them in action \About to upload another vid this morning.
made another easy tiny tweak in my system, Involves 1 side ofa  Tshirt, Yes i said Tshirt, like the one you are waering lol
New tweak in my speakers, 
Tshirt, which blocks out a  miniscule spike in the DavidLouis 4 inch, Only on certain complex classical passages will  the 4 inch full  range voice a  tiny stress, which gets on my nerves, So i throw a  single side ofa  Tshirt across, 
And results were acceptable.
Now I can gain the vol up a  pinch, allowing the beautiful Seas W18's and the china 3.5 inch Double Magnet 91db tweeter to get more juice as well, 
Results, Very nice tweak,.
In this video, a bit long at 30 minutes I make the audacious claim that my Frankenstein speakers will out shoot any and all xover speakers in the 200hz-15khz range.
Why   the bold claim ?
Due to my DavidLouis  and paper tweeters higher sensivitity vs vandersteens, Thiel and other speakers xover in that range. 
The mids in the xover brands are so fatiguing due to a   polluted midrange- say 8khz area.
Its all muddy and distorted.
I could not listena to a Thiel  or Vandersteen  not longer than a  few minutes at the most. Before severe listners fatigue set in. 
My Frankensteins have zero fatigue, zero coloration.
Why? 
Wide Band is the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-DyGnNrZrI
Watched a YouTube video on the Voxativ site that led to another video touring the facility where their products are made. They are working on two and three way designs for future offerings. My guess is they will employ crossovers. 
Iconoclast is the word you are looking for. Also the brand name of some very well designed speaker cables
@mozartfan  I am curious about your system.  What is it that you have for speakers and all of the support front-end gear?  I don't see your system posted on your Agon page, so please, enlighten me (us).

With much respect.