Excellent! Most serious manufacturers seem to feel thatthe way to make an
inexpensive speaker is to take the top two thirds of a more expensiveone.
But of course it is a kind of convention of High End audio that
warmth and so on are really not importnat nor perhaps even desirable
Cf my guest editorial in The Absolute Sound last issue but one.
Robert
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
On 16 Apr 2012, at 04:12, David Pickett <[email protected]> wrote:
At 19:44 15/04/2012, Len Moskowitz wrote:
A lot of stuff, with which I agree, plus:
Ronald Antony talked about the cost of good speakers being a barrier: " ... and
anything halfway acceptable is on a good sale at
least $250/speaker".
This has changed in the last ten years. Good speakers today are acceptably
inexpensive: around $75 to $175 per speaker channel. Have a look at:
Pioneer SP-BS41-LR ($149.99/pair) -
http://www.stereophile.com/content/pioneer-sp-bs41-lr-loudspeaker
Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 ($350/pair) -
http://www.stereophile.com/content/wharfedale-diamond-101-loudspeaker
NHT SuperZero 2.0 ($198/pair) -
http://www.stereophile.com/content/entry-level-10
Boston Acoustics A 25 ($299.98/pair) -
http://www.stereophile.com/content/boston-acoustics-25-loudspeaker
PSB Alpha B1 ($279/pair) -
http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/507psb/index.html
Infinity Primus P162 (or older P150 and P160, or newer P153 and P163)
loudspeaker ($298/pair)
-http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/1007inf/index.html
All of them have been reviewed on Stereophile's web site. Most of the reviews
include a nice set of measurements.
This is an impressive list. Only one caveat: bookshelf speakers need to be mounted
on stands in order to be close to optimally placed, which increases the system
price and probably diminishes the Wife Acceptance Factor. One reason wny I went
for the B&W DM603s.
Maybe I'm a bass fetishist, but as nice as many bookshelf speakers sound, even
relatively cheap ones, they don't go low enough. By the time you add stands and
a subwoofer, you're easily above the price range I said you have to consider.
Still, it's good things are coming down in price somewhat. My strategy for years was to
hunt for good speakers being discontinued, and then snap them up at close-out sales. This
works well, because speakers really don't get "outdated". Currently listening
to music on a pair of AR90 from the early 80s which I refurbished, and they sound better
than things that sell for well in the four digits range today, and are truly full-range.
I wish I had a second pair, that would be a nice Ambi setup.
Ronald
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