Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Yes, but.

I guess my only problem with this approach is that at some point, as you suggest, it can be misleading if the dealer is not upfront about what's going on.

Yes, some speakers are better than we generally hear them to be, but to get them to sound that 20% or so better, we have to connect them to gear that will entirely screw with the budgets of most customers. Audio Note front ends can be hugely expensive such that no one interested in AX2's is ever going to hear them sound that good at home and it's deceptive to demo them that way. A truly state of the art makeover artist can make a plain woman (or man for that matter) into a million dollar beauty by bringing out some of their hidden aesthetic qualities, for a million dollars.

What I think is more interesting is figuring out how much you NEED to spend to get AX2's to sound extremely good w/o creating a weirdly out of balance system. You may also find that these speakers have limitations that a hugely ambitious, highly resolving chain of electronics will expose. Audio Note kisses everything it touches (until you get into its stratospheric gear), so it's not always the best example of what I'm talking about. Even the fairly highly resolving Quest Silver Signatures ($20K) are fairly forgiving.

Your general point is a good one, as Sir Ivor taught us. But at the extreme, it can become a silly one, yes?




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