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RE: "Can you do better than a pair of big Sound Labs electrostats?"

"No more performance increase or microscopically little......for large increases in cost.

Everyone has to decide on that point for him or her self"

If we are talking about accuracy the point of "no more performance increase" is entirely objective and measurable. We have long since been there for amplification and digital sources. We have more recently arrived there with DSP. Even with transducers we are pretty much there. Speakers like the Kii system and the Sanders leave very little room for audible improvement when set up to their maximum potential.

And the price point at which there is pretty much no more room for objective improvement in accuracy is well under $100K. And this reality coexists with power cords that are prices at $40K and do nothing to improve the performance of an audio system.

As for personal choices I think they simply involve more than just pure objective accuracy in the performance of the stereo system. I personally have as much money invested in euphonic colorations for my system as I do for the basic system. And that is a far more fuzzy area when it comes to objective performance.

But these half million dollar SS amplifiers offer nothing in terms of accuracy over well designed SS amps costing 1/100th the price. They offer audiophile status and maybe just maybe looks.

Many of the mega buck speaker systems simply perform objectively not as well as the systems I cited. Someone may like them more. Preferences are inarguable. But they will in almost all cases not be as objectively accurate and low in distortion.

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