It's audio speakers, not rocket science. There are almost never massive technology leaps. It isn't a fast moving technology space, to say the least. Pretty unrealistic expectation if that is what your bar is.
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"It's audio speakers, not rocket science. There are almost never massive technology leaps. It isn't a fast moving technology space, to say the least. Pretty unrealistic expectation if that is what your bar is." Well said, @kren0006 |
No that is right it is not rocket science and very slow technology. But you could incorporate room calibration into the speakers and take the lead in DSP high end Path. But it is a missed opportunity.
Yeh and many do not like active and DSP in the high end market. But if they lead the way and bring the DSP into the fine room. And it is not so that they don’t know how to build amps and electronic.. they do.. maybe then they would sacrifice some amplifier sales.. but they could make a modular plate amp and made it possible to upgrade and so on. Yes missed opertunities, anyway. |
Well that same sentiment then applies to every other speaker company that released a speaker in last 10 years??? Complaint makes no sense.
Anyway, they are open to some potential criticism - e.g., price escalation when original projection was $8k, then $15k, landed at $28k; built in China when company had long prided itself on made-in-USA and perhaps most expensive speaker that is built in China, certainly most expensive speaker from US company, etc., but I wouldn’t criticize them for not including room correction - that’s kinda random.
Regardless, the most important thing is how it sounds, and does it sound better than the competition at $28k. I haven’t heard so can’t comment. Wish it would be at Axpona because since no US dealers can’t really hear it anywhere, unfortunately. It's an ambitious effort for an amp/regenerator/dac company who had never made a speaker before, so I give them credit for trying |
What is new technology in speakers these days? I don't know of any major driver type that wasn't around since the 1970's or much earlier. Even something "exotic" like a plasma tweeter was something invented in the 1930's. The only more recent development is DSP applied to room analysis and speaker equalization/control, and the most innovative example of that is the B&O speaker that utilizes multiple drivers and wave cancellation based on DSP analysis of the room to control the dispersion pattern of its drivers. It, by the way, costs way more than $30k. The bottom line is performance as compared to peers. It has nothing to do with technology employed or the cost of components and manufacture. If someone can use cheap parts and build something great sounding, more power to them (and profit) and one would be a fool to get something that sounds less satisfactory just because of an analysis of cost of manufacture. I have not heard the speaker so I cannot comment on its sound, much less its worth. How many criticizing it here have actually heard it in a reasonable setup? |
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