In Reply to: Poll....do you think speaker quality is better now or years ago? posted by hiikendan on October 6, 2012 at 13:38:12:
I think top drivers from the past are better than top drivers from present day. They would also be very expensive to replicate. They often have certain coloration which is called "tone". A thing which is mostly absent in modern drivers. Look at Tannoy and their "modern" developments , how they made a turn toward older designs in their prestige line . If you think it's only because of "old fashioned snobs" you didn't really listen and compare. Now, Speakers as whole I think are much better now except from few and appart vintage behemots which were great than and still are now. So , musical reproduction for masses improved over the years but for lucky few % with old $$$ hardly any. Progress in speaker design and amp design reached plateau 25 years ago. Now they only try to figure out new ways of carving MDF via CNC machines and stimulate public to change their old speakers by pushing new cone material.
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