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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems.
Post Subject: The slavery of self-delusions.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/16/2009
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 tuga wrote:
Our milage varies and in my case it's still quite short.
In any case, I would place glare on top of my list of appalling qualities of modern high-end loudspeakers.
This glare (unlike clarity) results from an exaggerated high frequency response that produces an apparent sense of audiophile "air" and resolution when in fact it's actually destroying tonal balance and smoothness or "naturalness", a bit like an over-exposed photograph.
It also disturbs me that the majority of these speakers are unable to play smoothly at high SPL levels but I am unqualified to comment on the technical cause of such inability.
Yep, Ric, you described pretty much what I was explaining to my German guy. Later on, when I have time I will elaborate on this subject in more details.
 Stitch wrote:
Even when you go for a 30K Speaker and you have knowledge about chassis and their pricing, you will discover, they are rarely more than 160 $/piece.
And they sound like that. But they eye is cheated with an excellent high gloss paint or expensive wood etc.

Stitch, yes, partially it is true – the mega-price loudspeakers do not necessary sound better then ridiculously inexpensive loudspeakers, the same is with amplifiers and cables. The problem is that price has absolutely no relevancy to sound of loudspeakers. I know it is hard to understand for many audio people. In the fields of the audio vomitorum the notion that an expensive loudspeaker is by default is an assurance of a some kind of notion of advantage, so even questioning of this "notion" recognized by many idiots as some kind of sacrilege. Try to visit TAS forum and make any critical comment about any of the above $30K loudspeakers. Those people would feel that you at least just raped their daughters and will attack you accordingly.  This subject always was very fascinating to me. Those people might not be idiots in other then audio areas, even in different fields of audio they might understand and agree with thee concept of cost/benefits stratification. In fact, we do see in many other audio fields the more or less rational cost/benefits stratification, to a degree. In the loudspeakers is it like all sane are bets off and the people are absolutely in the slavery of self-delusions.

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