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| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? It’s difficult to judge a pair of speakers based on the frequency response plot. There are just too many parameters. | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? The 2.4 cabinet performs poorly against some of its more modern competitors Is a there a link to point to a test that compares the cabinet resonance? I am not aware of any specific test. | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? The Thiel CS2.4 was only about 4.5K USD when it came out. It can compete handily with the YG. Their top of the line CS3.7 was only 13K USD. How prices have gotten out of whack! | |
| Which Tweeter preferred- dome natural material, Beryllium/Metal or Planar Ribbon? Why? Do this simple exercise. Disconnect the mid and bass drivers leaving only the tweeter. Play some music. It's impossible to tell if the tweeter is good or not. Meaning one can only tell how good a tweeter is once it is integrated to the rest of... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? Another part of the equation is there seems to be a rather high jump in price of high end audio components. Everything seems to cost quite a bit more nowaday. | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? I understand the diminishing return of higher cost speakers. In term of driver technology, both speakers seem to be in equal. The monitor metal dome technology does not seem to be inferior vs. the yg speakers. They are not of garden variety but... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That’s the answer you’re phishing for, right? I think there is a difference but not sure if 50K difference. | |
| Never Spend More On Cables Than Your Equipment Cost$$$$$$$$$$ QED makes good cables for their price range, but they are not quite high-end. I have the Reference 40 but compared to Acoustic Zen Hologram, they are inferior. | |
| Where should the vocal image be? OP I hope you found a baseline from all this??????????? I think one thing we can agree on is that there are a few variables. Once you have an optimal setting, most likely it's the recording that dictates where the vocal image will be placed on t... | |
| Where should the vocal image be? It's could be quite subjective as I would prefer the vocal to be at least mid way between the listener and the speaker plane. I understand this would trade off soundstage depth. This leads to another related topic as would you prefer that "they ... | |
| Where should the vocal image be? but what piece of equipment and it could include speakers, is responsible for the imaging / soundstage I would venture to say it would be the speakers. Then followed by the recordings. | |
| Do speaker wires have to be the same length for each speaker? They don't have to be the same length but your sound won't be optimal if they are of different length. It's simple as that. Seems like the cable haters in this thread are running wild :-) | |
| Power Cord Shielding For me, shielding is the most important factor. It’s not the only thing. The late Charles Hanson once said that the power amplifier is basically a modulator of the power supply. In that sense, the power cable is like a speaker cable in term of how... | |
| "Power Cords-More Recent" If you look at a power amplifier power supply design, they don't use regulator therefore it is much more susceptible to voltage change and variation. Most amps (if not all) only use only a rectifier stage and use output capacitor to try to keep t... | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... ^^^ Glad it worked out for you. I checked out the link but too bad it doesn't have any pictures of the cable. Could be some Chinese-made ones that you can get at Amazon for cheaper price. |